WHO recommends that China monitor excess Covid-19 mortality
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from COVID-19 to gain a fuller picture of the impact of the surge in cases ...
Chinese city-dwellers head to hometowns as holidays raise Covid stakes
Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could ...
China reports 59,938 Covid-related hospital deaths since Dec. 8
China said nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abruptly dismantled its zero-COVID policy in early December, a big increase from previously reported figures that follows global ...
China Covid peak to last two-three months, hit rural areas next
The peak of China’s COVID-19 wave is expected to last two to three months, and will soon swell over the vast countryside where medical resources are relatively scarce, a ...
Chinese fret over elderly as WHO warns of holiday COVID surge
People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns for holidays that the World Health Organization warns could inflame ...
China suspends short-term visas for S.Korea visitors in spat over Covid curbs
China’s embassy in Seoul said on Tuesday it has stopped issuing short-term visas for visitors from South Korea, the first retaliatory move against countries imposing COVID-19 curbs on travellers ...
Tesla delivery time is longer on some China models after discounts
Tesla (TSLA.O) has indicated longer waiting times for potential buyers of some versions of the Model Y in China, signalling that price cuts announced on Friday could be stoking ...
Hermes expands in Nanjing as luxury industry bets on Chinese return
Birkin bag maker Hermes (HRMS.PA) is opening a new, enlarged store in China’s Nanjing city, signalling the luxury industry’s confidence in a strong return of Chinese shoppers ...
‘Life is moving forward’: China declares new COVID phase
China braced for a “new phase” in its battle against COVID-19 on Monday and financial markets strengthened after Beijing dropped pandemic border controls in the latest easing of curbs that ...
Travel curbs rack up as Covid-hit China readies reopening
More countries around the world are demanding that visitors from China take COVID tests, days before it drops border controls and ushers in an eagerly awaited return to travel for ...
China defends its COVID response after WHO, Biden concerns
China defended on Thursday its handling of its raging COVID-19 outbreak after U.S. President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus ...
China pledges ‘final victory’ over Covid as outbreak raises global alarm
Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government’s mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied ...
China state media plays down severity of COVID wave before WHO meeting
China’s state media played down the severity on Tuesday of the COVID-19 wave surging over the country, with its scientists expected to give a briefing to the World Health ...
Blinken discusses U.S.-China ties in call with new foreign minister Qin
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he spoke with incoming Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, appointed last week to the post following his role as ambassador to the ...
Chinese state media seek to reassure public over COVID-19 (Wrapup)
Thousands of Chinese took to the streets to mark the New Year as authorities and state media sought to reassure the public that the COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country ...
Australia to require negative COVID tests for travellers from China
Australia said on Sunday that travellers from China will have to provide negative COVID-19 test results from Jan. 5, joining a growing number of nations that have implemented similar restrictions as ...
Taiwan president offers China help to deal with COVID surge
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Sunday offered to provide China with “necessary assistance” to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases, but said Chinese military activities near the ...
Putin expects China’s Xi to visit soon, Xi holds his line on Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit early next year in what would be a public show of ...
Chinese jet came within 10 feet of U.S. military aircraft – U.S. military
A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a U.S. air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive maneuvers ...
COVID pressures China’s hospitals as countries mandate tests for travellers
Chinese hospitals and funeral homes were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surging COVID-19 wave drained resources, while the scale of the outbreak and doubts over official data prompted ...
Chinese make travel plans as Beijing dismantles zero-COVID rules
Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by stringent COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening next month, even ...
China’s Zhejiang province has 1 million daily Covid cases, expected to double
The eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang is battling around 1 million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday.
Despite ...
China’s stretched health system braces for peak in Covid infections
China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country’s health system even as they downplay ...
Shanghai hospital readies for ‘tragic battle’ with Covid
A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people to get infected by the ...