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China megacity says people with symptomatic Covid can work 'as normal'
Dec 19, 2022 (AFP)
The world's most populous nation is unwinding years of hardline coronavirus policy, with Covid spreading rapidly in the wake of the official end of mass lockdow...
China reports first Covid deaths since hardline policy eased
Dec 19, 2022 (AFP)
The country is pressing ahead with unwinding years of its zero-Covid policy, with people in one megacity now even told they can go to work if they are visibly i...
China nursing homes struggle to keep residents safe from Covid wave
Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)
Facilities are locking themselves off from the outside world with staff sleeping on site, while struggling to get their hands on drugs. Authorities have warned ...
Climate change fuelling cholera surge: WHO
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
The World Health Organization is responding to cholera outbreaks in 29 countries, including Haiti, which has more than 1,200 confirmed cases, more than 14,000 s...
After three years, Covid 'here to stay'
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
Three years after the first case was identified in China in December 2019, experts say the world must learn the lessons of this pandemic to prepare for potentia...
Beijing crematoriums strain under China Covid wave
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across China after three years of strict containment measures ended last week, with health authorities now admitting the true scal...
Life with Covid, once taboo, goes viral in China
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Catching Covid was long taboo in China, where recovered patients faced job discrimination and social isolation during the country's nearly three-year effort to ...
China says tracking Covid cases now 'impossible' as infections soar
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
After nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus, the sudden end of mass testing and quarantines has led to a corresponding drop in officially repo...
China says tracking Covid cases 'impossible' as infections soar
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing's decision to scrap mass testing and quarantines after nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus has led to a corresponding drop in offici...
China Covid 'explosion' began before restrictions eased: WHO
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Officials in China warned that cases are rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy, scrapping mass testing and qua...
Molecules found in mucus could prevent cholera infection
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
These protective molecules, known as glycans, are a major constituent of mucins, the gel-forming polymers that make up mucus. The MIT team identified a specific...
Hong Kong further eases Covid curbs, but many rules remain
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
But authorities confirmed they were keeping a host of other rules including mandatory PCR checks for overseas arrivals, daily testing of school children and com...
China faces soaring Covid cases as hardline policy eases
Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)
Just a few days after China began loosening restrictions, Beijing authorities said more than 22,000 patients had visited hospitals across the city in the previo...
Top China expert says Covid 'spreading rapidly' after rules easing
Dec 11, 2022 (AFP)
Shops and restaurants in Beijing are deserted as the country awaits a spike in infections following the decision to reduce the scope of mandatory testing, allow...
Global economic chiefs laud China's 'decisive' zero-Covid reversal
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
The relaxation would help to shore up a world economy struggling with the impact of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the head of the World Trade O...
China's capital adjusts to life with Covid after policy reversal
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday announced a nationwide loosening of its zero-Covid restrictions, reducing the scope of mandatory testing...
Tributes pour in for whistleblower doctor after China's zero-Covid U-turn
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
Li was in a group of doctors in the central city of Wuhan who warned on social media of a new SARS-like disease spreading in December 2019, and was reprimanded ...
Challenging last mile for China's vaccine push after zero-Covid retreat
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
Around a third of Chinese aged 80 and above have not yet received a full course of vaccines, compared with under 10 percent of the population as a whole. With C...
China announces nationwide loosening of Covid restrictions
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
The new rules are a major relaxation of President Xi Jinping's signature zero-Covid policy, three years into the pandemic and long after the rest of the world h...
Anti-lockdown protests tip China's Xi into zero-Covid climbdown
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
Xi has promoted zero-Covid as a triumph, proclaiming China has put "the people and their lives first" when it comes to dealing with the pandemic, and brooking n...
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