Coronavirus In China

China to start issuing new passports as virus curbs ease

China stopped issuing passports at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 as part of the world’s strictest anti-virus controls and tried to block students, businesspeople and other travelers from going abroad

China: Why older people are reluctant to get vaccinated despite rising COVID cases

The National Health Commission announced a campaign to raise the vaccination rate among older Chinese, which health experts say is crucial to avoid a healthcare crisis. It's also the biggest hurdle before the ruling Communist Party can lift the last of the world’s most stringent COVID rules

5000 people dying a day in China due to COVID, says health data firm as Xi administration hides actual figures

China has been gripped by the most intense surge of COVID-19 ever in the world since the pandemic started ever since it abandoned the Zero Covid policy that had turned into an instrument of public repression

In another big change, China says it won't report asymptomatic COVID cases

China last week announced its most significant easing yet of antivirus measures and has begun to see what appears to be a rapid increase in new infections

Beijing sees record Covid cases as China outbreak spirals

New cases in Beijing have also jumped in recent days, more than doubling from 621 on Sunday to Tuesday's 1,438 -- a pandemic record for the city

China’s untouchables: Covid patient hoisted out of community by crane

Meanwhile, a surge in covid cases in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) has given a severe blow to Chinese authorities to achieve their annual growth targets

COVID-19: Over 80,000 tourists trapped in 'China's Hawaii' after authorities impose travel curbs

Tourism hotspot Sanya is a city of more than a million people on the southern island of Hainan, where 483 Covid cases were reported Sunday. All flights out of the city were cancelled over the weekend, with authorities also halting train ticket sales

Back to 2020: 26 million lives on hold as Shanghai expands COVID-19 lockdown

The lockdown in Shanghai, being done in two phases over eight days to enable testing of its entire population, has shaken global markets worried about the possible economic impact

China: Shanghai starts country's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in two years

China's financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, Shanghai had managed its smaller, past outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading

China: Shanghai to impose phased lockdown after city emerges as COVID-19 hotspot

China's biggest city will lock down its eastern half for five days of testing beginning on Monday, the government said, followed by a similar lockdown of its western side beginning on 1 April