China Covid Cases

• Canada is lifting COVID-19 testing rules for travellers from China

  The move comes nearly three weeks before the measures were set to expire and quickly follows the lifting of similar requirements by the United States.

  Health

  Mar 16, 2023
  
• U.S. to relax COVID-19 testing rules on travelers from China this week: sources

  Officials said the Biden administration made the decision as cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining in China and the U.S. has gathered better information about the surge.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2023
  
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• Canada extends COVID-19 measures for travellers from China to early April

  Since Jan. 5, air travellers from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macau have been required to present a negative COVID-19 test before entering Canada.

  Health

  Feb 2, 2023
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• China reports nearly 60,000 COVID-related deaths in past month after data criticism

  China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data.

  World

  Jan 14, 2023
• Beijing, Shanghai residents back to work as COVID outbreak continues in China

  Cities across China have been racing to add intensive-care units and fever clinics, facilities designed to prevent the wider spread of contagious disease in hospitals.

  Health

  Dec 26, 2022
• COVID leaves China’s ICUs packed, crematoriums crowded: ‘There’s no beds here’

  As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.

  World

  Dec 24, 2022
• China health app starts online sales of Pfizer’s Paxlovid, sells out in an hour

  The medication sold out just over half an hour after the listing was reported in the media, underscoring surging demand for COVID and flu medicines in China.

  Health

  Dec 14, 2022
• China urges ‘patience’ as local COVID cases soar to highest since August

  Pressure on officials has risen in recent weeks as the highly transmissible Omicron sub-variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7 appeared in mainland China for the first time.

  World

  Oct 10, 2022
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• COVID in Shanghai: Millions tested as China battles new outbreaks

  Shanghai reported 54 new locally transmitted COVID cases for Wednesday. More than 70 cases confirmed in recent days are linked to the karaoke joints, authorities said.

  Health

  Jul 7, 2022
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• China’s strict zero-COVID approach cripples May Day holiday travel

  China is sticking to a strict zero-COVID policy even as many other countries are easing restrictions and seeing if they can live with the virus.

  World

  May 1, 2022