Tag: china covid
China struggles with weak post-Covid economic recovery
SHIYAN (China): Sales of Yizhuan Automobile Co.’s trash trucks picked up after China ended anti-virus controls in December, but their growth is in low gear…
China witnesses fresh wave of Covid cases from XBB variants
BEIJING (CHINA): The Chinese authorities are rushing to push out vaccines to combat an ongoing new wave of the coronavirus that is expected to peak…
WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid’s origins
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA: The WHO has criticised China for withholding data related to samples taken at a market in Wuhan in 2020 that could have provided…
China’s ‘zero Covid’ response ‘completely right’, highly effective: China’s new Premier Li Qiang
BEIJING: China’s new Premier Li Qiang on Monday strongly defended the much-hated ‘zero Covid‘ strategy followed by the country for over three years which hurt…
Covid-19 pandemic most likely came from lab leak in China: US agency
NEW DELHI: A laboratory leak was the most likely origin of the Covid-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc across the world, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…
WHO says Covid-19 remains ‘global health emergency’
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA: The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be a ‘global health emergency‘ and the deadly virus will remain a ‘permanently established pathogen’ in humans and…
China: Covid deaths, cases down 70% since peak, when daily infections topped 7 million
HONG KONG: Critically ill Covid-19 cases in China are down 72% from a peak early this month while daily deaths among Covid-19 patients in hospitals…
More than 1.1 billion people in China got Covid in latest wave, official suggests
China said more than 12,600 people died of Covid-related causes in the week leading up to the Lunar New Year holidays, with a health official…
China says Covid outbreak has infected 80% of population
BEIJING: The possibility of a big Covid-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80% of people have been…