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Nearly all of Beijing's 22 mn population to get Covid by January-end: Study

About 92% of the people in China's capital will have contracted Covid by the end of January, while 76% had already been infected by December 22, according to the study

Chinese government entities to take golden shares in Alibaba, Tencent

The discussions are emerging as Beijing prepares to loosen its grip on the sector and move past a bruising crackdown that's enveloped most every internet sphere for well over a year

China's estimated GDP growth rate out of reach for Beijing: WB report

Amid multiple domestic and international reverses due to its zero-Covid policy and assertiveness, China is unlikely to meet its estimated GDP growth rate, according to World Bank

China's open borders mark an end to covid zero, spark homecoming rush

While the Covid zero policy managed to keep the virus at bay for much of the pandemic as it killed millions elsewhere, they became increasingly irrelevant with emergence of more infectious variants

Beds run out at Beijing hospital as Covid-19 brings in more patients

Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. The Chuiyangliu hospital in the city's east was packed with newly arrived patients on Thursday. By midmorning beds had run out, even as ambulances continued to bring those in need. Hard-pressed nurses and doctors rushed to take information and triage the most urgent cases. The surge in severely ill people needing hospital care follows China abandonment of its most severe pandemic restrictions last month after nearly three years of lockdowns, travels bans and school closures that weighed heavily on the economy and prompted street protests not seen since the late 1980s. It also comes as the the European Union on Wednesday strongly encouraged its member states to impose pre-departure COVID-19 testing of passengers from China. Over the past week, EU nations have reacted with a variety of restrictions toward travelers from Chi

No reason China should retaliate over Covid travel restrictions: US

China has said it would hit back at nations that impose new rules on its travelers, dismissing the measures as "political goals

China's economy ends year in major slump as Covid infections surge

Official data over the weekend showed the decline in manufacturing worsened last month, while activity in the services sector plunged the most since February 2020

China regime crippled as sons burn bodies of fathers outside flats

The Chinese regime is so crippled by Covid that sons must burn the bodies of their fathers outside blocks of flats in its leading cities

Is India really serious about a bid to host the Olympic Games in 2036?

The country would do well to think several times before committing to such gigantic expenditure in the uncertain future

China's economic activity rebounds in cities where Covid-19 peaked

While mobility still remains well below pre-pandemic levels, the quick rebound in activity in cities like Beijing - where the outbreak was most severe - suggests the economy could recover faster

Countries restrict entry of Chinese travellers as Beijing lifts Covid curbs

Uncertainty over the true scale of infections without reliable official figures is fueling concern that the rapid spread of the virus could lead to the emergence of new variants

'Living with Covid': UK to stop publishing data, China back to work

The data is considered "no longer necessary" as the country moves to a phase of living with the virus with the help of vaccines and medicines

Beijing to distribute Pfizer antiviral drug amid unprecedented Covid wave

Beijing will begin distributing Pfizers Covid 19 drug Paxlovid to the citys community health centres in the coming days, state media reported on Monday

Facing questions over accuracy, China stops releasing Covid-19 cases data

The commission didn't provide a reason for the change in policy, but said that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will release Covid-related info for studies and reference

China's Covid-19 surge is infecting 37 million people a day: Report

Some 37 million people in China may have been infected with C-19 on a single day this week, as Beijing discontinued restrictions that had contained the virus since the start of the pandemic

Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: Coronavirus roils Chinese towns

Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometres (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full. They say there's no beds here, she barked into her phone. As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed. Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, relatives of sick people are searching for open beds, and patients are slumped on benches in hospital corridors and lying on floors for a lack of beds. Yao's elderly mother-in-law had fallen ill a week ago. They went first to a local hospital, where lung scans showed signs of pneumonia. But the hospital couldn't handle COVID-19 cases, Yao was told. She was told to go to hospitals in adjacent counties. As Yao and her husband drove from hospital to hospital, they found all the wards

Multiple factors behind rise of severe Covid cases in Beijing: Experts

Health experts noted that multiple reasons have led to a rise of severe Covid cases in Beijing, as north China generally sees a greater occurrence of respiratory infectious diseases in winter times.

Infection rate could be over 50% in Beijing, situation critical: Report

China ceased its strict zero-Covid policy in November and since then, the country has seen a spike and the spread has been faster than anticipated

Beijing building up unoccupied land features in South China Sea, says West

While China has previously built out disputed reefs, islands in the area, the West presented images of what they called the first known instances of a nation doing so on the territory

China's Covid-19 outbreak has US worried about new mutations of virus

The US is sending a delegation led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing early in the new year