China Covid Update

WATCH: Medical services in China crumble under unprecedented COVID surge as bodies pile up

Epidemiologist and health economist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding estimate that 60 per cent of China's population is likely to be infected over the next 90 days. 'Deaths likely in the millions—plural,' he added

'Important to watch Chinese situation, but Indians don't need to panic, situation in control'

"INSACOG data shows that almost all sub-variants of Omicron found everywhere in the world are found in India; there are not many sub-variants which aren't circulating here," NK Arora said

Twitter searches for China COVID-19 protests bombarded by spam, porn

For the past few days, searches in Chinese for major protest hotspots, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou, show a nonstop stream of solicitations, images of scantily clad women in suggestive poses and seemingly random word and sentence fragments

Explained: How China is using metal barriers to fight surge in COVID-19 cases

The barriers are deployed to ensure control over movement and often leave only a small entrance that can be easily guarded

Lockdowns, mass-testing returns to China as country battles worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years

China is returning to coronavirus controls many hoped it had long left behind. The country is facing its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the first wave of the pandemic emerged in Wuhan in late 2019