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 ...
First foreign COVID vaccines head to China from Germany
erlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech 22UAy.DE COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first ...
Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths
Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the ...
China races to install hospital beds as COVID surge sparks concern abroad
Cities across China scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever screening clinics on Tuesday as the United States said Beijing’s surprise decision to let the virus run free ...
China officially reports first Covid deaths in weeks as virus wave swells
China officially reported on Monday its first COVID-related deaths since the government began dismantling strict anti-virus controls earlier this month, feeding anxiety that this could be the start of a ...
State Department launches ‘China House’ amid rivalry with Beijing
The U.S. State Department on Friday launched its long-planned “China House” unit, an internal reorganization to help expand and sharpen its policymaking toward its top geopolitical rival.
Secretary of ...
China urges vaccines for vulnerable as ‘zero-COVID’ exit turns messy
China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after a loosening of ...
‘Tough times’: Warnings sound over China’s rapid ‘zero-Covid’ exit
A week after China began dismantling its tough ‘zero-COVID’ controls, the World Health Organization warned of “very tough” times ahead and state media reported some seriously ill patients at hospitals ...
Five Chinese citizens badly injured in Kabul attack, businessman says
Over a dozen Chinese citizens were wounded, five of them seriously, in a gun and bomb attack on a hotel in downtown Kabul, a Chinese businessman in the Afghan capital ...
‘Please protect yourself’: China wrestles with Covid surge
People queued outside fever clinics at China’s hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling stringent measures against ...