Chinese authorities are testing millions of people, imposing lockdowns and shutting down schools after multiple locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered in three cities across the country last week.

Hundreds of thousands essential workers and other limited groups of people considered at high risk of infection have been given the vaccine.

Perhaps it's time for someone in an official capacity to question Beijing's COVID-19 data, Roy Green says.

Beijing has sought to focus on China's success at overcoming the virus, rather than its origins.

China reported just 21 new virus cases on Friday, six of them imported, with the rest in the Xinjiang region and Jilin province.

As three other provinces reported new cases linked to the Beijing cluster, several provinces warned their residents against non-essential travel to the capital and implemented isolation protocols for travellers from riskier parts of Beijing.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 83,132, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

China has reported 4,634 deaths from COVID-19, a figure that has been static for weeks, among 83,064 total cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese industrial city of Wuhan.

Canada’s research on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is a 'valuable target' for foreign hackers, say intelligence agencies

Canadians want Justin Trudeau to get tough on China, Matthew Fisher says. 'If the prime minister is not brave enough to do that, China may become a major election issue.'