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Spike in Covid cases in China's Zhejiang renews supply chain concerns

Aside from Apple suppliers, Zhejiang is home to Japanese automaker Nidec and a slew of other foreign manufacturers

'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

China sends 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hrs to display force

China's military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan's defense ministry said Monday, after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in a US annual defense spending bill passed on Saturday. China's military harassment of self-ruled Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party's People's Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis. Between 6 am Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense. Among the planes China sent towards Taiwan were 18 J-16 fighter jets, 11 J-1 fighters, 6 Su-30 fighters and drones. Taiwan said it monitored the Chinese moves through its land-based missile systems, as well as on its own navy vessels. "This is a firm response to the curr

Jinping says China faces 'new Covid situation', calls for targeted measures

President Xi Jinping on Monday said China faced a "new Covid situation," as he urged healthcare officials to take targeted measures to deal with the sudden surge in infections, the first time that he has spoken about the grim healthcare situation in the country. In his fresh directive, Xi said that more targeted patriotic health campaigns should be conducted as the country's COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control faces new situations and new tasks. As China continues to reel under a wave of Omicron variants, Xi demanded more efforts in guiding the public to acquire health knowledge and skills, maintain good personal hygiene and form a healthy lifestyle to build a defence line against the epidemic for the whole society, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. This is the first time that the Chinese president has commented on the grim Covid situation in the country after his government overnight relaxed the stringent zero-covid policy earlier this month following mass ...

Amid Covid surge in China, here's what you need to know about BF.7 variant

So far, scientists have found that symptoms shown by a person infected with BF.7 are not different than those shown by other Omicron subvariants

Factories forced to close in China as workers fall sick amid Covid surge

Many factories have been forced to shut down for weeks because of sick workers and lack of orders, according to Chinese media

China hands daily Covid data duty to local CDC as nations seek transparency

China's National Health Commission (NHC) has stopped publishing daily Covid-19 case data, handing over the charge to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Packed hospitals, crowded crematoriums as Covid-19 roils Chinese towns

Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (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. Emergency rooms 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 with the coronavirus. They went first to a local hospital, where lung scans showed signs of pneumonia. But the hospital couldn't handle serious COVID-19 cases, Yao was told. She was told to go to larger hospitals in adjacent counties. As Yao and her husband drove from hospital to hospit

China's actions may lead to military hostilities in Indo-Pacific: Report

Several smaller nations in the region have accused China of using military threats to maintain its hegemony and silencing the critics

47 Chinese military aircrafts enter air defence zone, claims Taiwan

It further said that its armed forces monitored the situation and stated that its aircraft, navy vessels and missile systems have been tasked to respond to these activities

About 24 mn people over age 60 yet to receive first Covid jab in China

The vaccination figure fell to "just 42.4 per cent for those aged 80 and over"

Global smart home devices market may shrink 2.6% to 874 mn units in 2022

Worsening macroeconomic conditions have led to a reduction in the outlook for global smart home device shipments

China's economy is showing increasing strain from the Covid tsunami

Even before the curbs were lifted, China's economy was struggling, with a slump in consumer spending deepening and industrial output growing the slowest since the spring lockdowns

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

No major mutations, existing strains driving China Covid outbreak: Study

Some global health authorities and governments have expressed concern the outbreak in China could spur the development of dangerous new variants

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

China stops publishing daily Covid-19 cases amid fresh surge: Report

China's National Health Commission, which used to issue the country's Covid-19 case figures on a daily basis, starting Sunday stopped publishing the update, according to The Global Times

China says aims to rebuild US ties, boost communication with Europe in 2023

Beijing's assertive foreign policy has contributed to a collapse in public support across the developed world during Xi's decade in power

China ready to work on relations with India: Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on Sunday, said that China is ready to work with India through steady and sound growth of the relations, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry website

Ready to work with India for growth of bilateral relations: China

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday said that his country is ready to work with India towards the "steady and sound" growth of bilateral relations.