Corona Updates

Funeral homes across China’s Covid-hit capital Beijing, a city of 22 million, scrambled on Saturday to keep up with calls for funeral and cremation services as workers and drivers testing positive for the novel coronavirus called in sick.…
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Administrators of the Xiangfu Nursing Home, a high-end facility for the elderly in Shanghai’s Changning district, are struggling to keep pace with the abrupt end of China’s Covid Zero policy. Their simple solution for now: shut the doors.…
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More than 2 million people in China may die from Covid-19 as the government rapidly abandons pandemic curbs, according to a new study by researchers in Hong Kong. In the absence of a mass vaccination booster campaign and other measures to…
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China’s capital Beijing no longer requires people that enter supermarkets and commercial buildings to show negative COVID-19 tests on their mobile phones, the city government said in a statement on Tuesday. However, the city still requires…
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Cities across China further unwound Covid restrictions on Friday, loosening testing and quarantine rules in the wake of nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms. Anger and frustration with China’s…
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चीन में कोरोना तेजी से फैल रहा है. यही वजह है कि जीरो कोविड पॉलिसी के तहत चीन ने कई जगहों पर लॉकडाउन लगा दिया है. जिसके खिलाफ अब बड़ी संख्‍या में लोग सड़कों पर उतर आए हैं. दिलचस्‍प है कि जहां चीन में रोजाना कोरोना के 30 हजार से ज्‍यादा केस…
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Beijing reported a new high in its Covid-19 caseload and two more deaths on Tuesday as authorities shut down parks, office buildings and shopping malls, moving the city’s most populous Chaoyang district closer to a full lockdown and urging…
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China’s capital Beijing posted a record number of new Covid cases on Tuesday, with the city hunkering down under a tightening chokehold of restrictions that have sent schools online, closed many restaurants and forced employees to work from…
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Two new Covid deaths were reported from China’s capital city of Beijing, heightening concern the city could see a return of tougher restrictions. China registered more than 27,000 new infections on Sunday, of which 2,365 were symptomatic…
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Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home Saturday to undergo virus testing and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported.…
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