Covid in China

BEIJING: China will no longer require travelers to the country to provide a negative PCR test result, scrapping a rule that’s been a major deterrent for visitation since the world’s second-largest economy emerged from Covid isolation in…

BEIJING: During a busy shift at the height of Beijing's Covid wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the emergency department: doctors should “try not to” write Covid-induced respiratory failure on death…

China’s COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and underrepresents the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The…

BEIJING: 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 Organization on the evolution of the virus later in the…

BEIJING: China’s economic activity contracted at a steeper pace in December as the country suddenly reversed its Covid Zeropolicy and the virus swept through major cities, causing people to stay home and businesses to shut.The official…

Mehul Reuben DasDec 28, 2022 14:58:36 ISTApple’s Chinese business is under serious threat from a widespread outbreak of the Coronavirus. Experts claim that this time around, if the supply chain gets disrupted like it did the last time, the…

Mehul Reuben DasDec 27, 2022 13:07:54 ISTAccording to the most recent official data released by the Chinese government, smartphone sales in the country fell 22 per cent in the first 10 months of the year as a result of waning domestic…

<!-- -->China is considering only deaths happening due to pneumonia and respiratory failures.Beijing: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise at a meteoric pace in China, crematoriums throughout the country are getting packed and people…

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…

<!-- -->At Shanghai's Tongren Hospital, patients await treatment.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…