China Covid News

• China to resume issuing passports, visas for travel abroad despite COVID-19 surge

  Also Monday, the government downgraded the official seriousness of COVID-19 and removed it from a list of illnesses that require quarantine.

  Health

  Dec 28, 2022
  
• ‘Tragic battle’ looms as COVID spreads in China, Shanghai hospital warns

  China this month began dismantling its "zero-COVID" regime, which had taken a great financial and psychological toll on its 1.4 billion people.

  Health

  Dec 22, 2022
  
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• 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
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• Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ policy as Communist Party meets

  While public protests are relatively rare in China, some people took to the streets in Shanghai and the northeastern city of Dandong to protest harsh and prolonged lockdowns.

  World

  Oct 21, 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
• Shanghai looking to ease COVID-19 lockdown after mass testing

  The fresh round of testing comes as the Chinese city reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic.

  World

  Apr 9, 2022