covid in china

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…

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…

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…

BEIJING: China has been able to beat back successive waves of Covid-19 thanks to the widespread deployment of snap lockdowns, strict quarantines and some of the world’s tightest travel controls. Yet, the strain is showing at its borders.…

BEIJING: China locked down a county that has seen the most Covid-19 cases in the country’s latest delta outbreak, as an initial flareup in the country’s northwest quickly spirals into a nationwide surge. Ejin, a county in China’s Inner…

BEIJING: A Chinese citizen journalist held since May for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled was set for trial Monday, almost a year after details of an "unknown viral pneumonia" surfaced in the central…

SHANGHAI: A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen- journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking…