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Share the data, WHO urges China at Covid surge talks
Dec 30, 2022 (AFP)
The rise in infections in China has triggered concern around the globe and questions about its data reporting, with low official figures on cases and deaths des...
China insists official Covid data is transparent: state media
Dec 30, 2022 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier urged China to be more forthcoming on the pandemic and said it was "understandable" that some countries had introdu...
France, Britain impose Covid tests on travelers from China
Dec 30, 2022 (AFP)
Spain, South Korea and Israel also said they would require proof of a negative test for travelers leaving China. Despite its hospitals and morgues being overwhe...
Concern over China Covid surge 'understandable': WHO
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged China to be more forthcoming on the pandemic situation in the country. His comments came after the United States join...
Soaring China Covid cases increase risk of new variants: experts
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
China announced this week that incoming travellers would no longer have to quarantine from January 8, the latest major reversal of strict restrictions that have...
US to impose China Covid testing as virus surge jangles global nerves
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
Hospitals and crematoriums across China continue to be overwhelmed by the explosion of Covid cases, which have hit the elderly especially hard. The winter surge...
Hong Kong asks Japan to reverse flight curbs; US considering own China restrictions
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
The city deployed similar curbs during its own fight against Covid, including rapid bans on airlines for carrying virus-positive passengers and travel restricti...
Jubilant Chinese plan trips as inbound Covid quarantine set to end
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
In a snap move late Monday, China said that from January 8 inbound travellers would no longer need to quarantine, as it further unwinds hardline virus controls ...
Xi urges steps to 'protect' lives as China battles Covid wave
Dec 26, 2022 (AFP)
Having mostly cut itself off from the rest of the world during the pandemic, China is now experiencing the planet's biggest surge in infections after abruptly l...
China to stop publishing daily Covid figures-NHC
Dec 25, 2022 (AFP)
Cities across China have struggled with surging infections, and a resulting shortage of pharmaceuticals and overflowing hospital wards, after Beijing rapidly di...
China's propaganda machine sputters in zero-Covid reversal
Dec 24, 2022 (AFP)
For years, the country's propaganda apparatus hailed zero-Covid as proof of the superiority of the Communist Party's authoritarian rule and the wisdom of powerf...
Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day: official
Dec 24, 2022 (AFP)
China this month has rapidly dismantled key pillars of its zero-Covid strategy, doing away with snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and travel curbs in a jarrin...
Hospitals overflow in China's Covid wave
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
China is battling a wave of coronavirus infections that has hit the elderly hard but resulted in only a handful of reported deaths after the government redefine...
Hong Kong tailors livestream in pandemic survival fight
Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)
The Melwani family has dressed everyone from American presidents to aristocrats and celebrities over the decades. But the pandemic nearly sunk them -- and many ...
Elderly Covid patients fill hospital wards in China's major cities
Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)
The virus is surging across the vast Asian nation in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. And with cases ...
Berlin says supplying Germans in China with mRNA jabs
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters that the first batch of German pharma company's BioNTech jabs were being flown to China. "The Chinese gov...
China says no new Covid deaths after changing criteria
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
Hospitals are struggling, pharmacy shelves have been stripped bare and many crematoriums are overwhelmed in the wake of the Chinese government's sudden decision...
US offers Covid vaccines to China to stem outbreak
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
It is unlikely that China would accept the offer from the United States, its frequent adversary, after Beijing invested heavily in Covid diplomacy that included...
China's crematoriums 'packed' as Covid cases soar
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
Cases are soaring across China, with hospitals struggling and pharmacy shelves stripped bare in the wake of the government's sudden decision to lift years of lo...
India steps up Covid genome sequencing as China cases soar
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
In a letter seen by AFP, the ministry said that it is "essential to gear up the whole genome sequencing of positive case samples" in order to track any new vari...
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