coronavirus in china

BEIJING: As Covid-19 rips through China's vast population, making millions sick and fuelling a shortage of drugs, many are turning to old-school traditional medicines to battle the aches and pains of the virus.President Xi Jinping has…

BEIJING: Left to fend for herself after China abruptly ended the world’s strictest Covid restrictions, 31-year-old Share Xue and her daughter found themselves with 40C (104F) fevers and an expired bottle of Motrin. “I didn’t think it would…

BEIJING: The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts…

BEIJING: China hasn’t updated its daily Covid reports for three days, adding to global concerns that the information vacuum is masking the true impact of the world’s biggest outbreak.The last time the country published its daily Covid…

SEOUL: China has suspended the issuing of short-term visas to South Koreans in response to Seoul's imposition of travel restrictions on Chinese travellers over Covid concerns, Beijing's embassy said Tuesday."Chinese embassies and consulates…

<!-- -->Zhejiang is among the few areas to estimate their recent spikes in infections.Beijing: China's Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to…

SHANGHAI: Months after Shanghai endured a brutal lockdown to stop the spread of Covid, the virus is starting to make its way virtually unchecked through the megacity's 25 million-strong population.Hospitals are struggling to cope with the…

BEIJING: Business is suddenly booming for China’s lemon farmers as citizens turn to natural remedies to fight a mounting wave of Covid infections. “The market is very much on fire,” said one farmer called Wen, who only gave his surname when…

SHENZHEN: Headhunter Candice knows the Covid-19 infections engulfing Beijing and much of China will soon hit her home of Shenzhen city, but she would rather face it without a vaccine booster, saying she fears potential side effects more…

BEIJING: Barely a week in, China’s lighter-touch Covid Zeropolicy is already running into trouble. Surging infections are threatening to overwhelm some of the country’s biggest and most important cities, with local officials stymied over…