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Chinese city-dwellers head to hometowns as holidays raise Covid stakes

Chinese city-dwellers head to hometowns as holidays raise Covid stakes

Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could intensify a raging Covid-19 outbreak in areas less-equipped to handle it.
Macau to allow home isolation for Covid infections

Macau to allow home isolation for Covid infections

Macau's government will allow people infected with Covid-19 to isolate at home from Wednesday, a key step towards relaxing strict virus control measures in the world's gambling hub for the first time in almost three years.
December 12, 2022 | 01:06 am PT
Chinese cities including Beijing report record Covid cases

Chinese cities including Beijing report record Covid cases

Beijing and several other major cities in China reported record Covid-19 infections on Monday, putting authorities under more pressure to quell outbreaks quickly while also trying to reduce the impact on people's lives and on economic activity.
November 14, 2022 | 01:39 am PT
China posts 6-month high Covid count as it sticks with strategy

China posts 6-month high Covid count as it sticks with strategy

China on Sunday reported its highest number of new Covid-19 infections in six months, a day after health officials said they were sticking with strict coronavirus curbs, likely disappointing recent investor hopes for an easing.
November 5, 2022 | 08:51 pm PT
China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest megacity Chengdu

China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest megacity Chengdu

Millions of people in the Chinese megacity of Chengdu emerged Monday from a Covid-19 lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced residents to stay home for over two weeks.
September 18, 2022 | 08:45 pm PT
Biden says 'the pandemic is over' even as death toll, costs mount

Biden says 'the pandemic is over' even as death toll, costs mount

U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that "the pandemic is over," even though the country continues to grapple with coronavirus infections that kill hundreds of Americans daily.
September 18, 2022 | 07:54 pm PT
Macau to reopen city as no Covid infections detected for 9 days

Macau to reopen city as no Covid infections detected for 9 days

Macau will reopen public services and entertainment facilities, and allow dining-in at restaurants from Tuesday, authorities said, as the world's biggest gambling hub seeks a return to normalcy after finding no Covid-19 cases for nine straight days.
August 1, 2022 | 12:44 am PT
Japan looks to regions to mount Covid fight as variant spreads

Japan looks to regions to mount Covid fight as variant spreads

Japan is encouraging regional authorities to take their own counter-measures against the spread of a new coronavirus variant, but no plan for national measures.
July 28, 2022 | 10:30 pm PT
US tech titans stumble after pandemic boom

US tech titans stumble after pandemic boom

Amazon and Apple were a relative bright spot in a week of otherwise lackluster earnings results for an industry reckoning with the end of heady pandemic-era growth.
July 28, 2022 | 06:57 pm PT
Record number of Covid-hit Australians in hospital as Omicron surges

Record number of Covid-hit Australians in hospital as Omicron surges

The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with Covid-19 hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants strains the healthcare system nationwide.
July 24, 2022 | 10:48 pm PT
North Korea says it is nearing end of Covid crisis as Asian neighbors fight resurgence

North Korea says it is nearing end of Covid crisis as Asian neighbors fight resurgence

North Korea is on the path to "finally defuse" a crisis stemming from its first acknowledged outbreak of Covid-19, the state news agency said on Monday, while Asian neighbors battle a fresh wave of infections driven by Omicron subvariants.
July 18, 2022 | 04:31 am PT
Vietnam detects Omicron subvariant BA.5

Vietnam detects Omicron subvariant BA.5

Phan Trong Lan, head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, said Monday that Vietnam has detected the Omicron subvariant BA.5, but did not elaborate.
June 27, 2022 | 07:27 am PT
Each Covid repatriation flight earned thousand-dollar profit: public security ministry

Each Covid repatriation flight earned thousand-dollar profit: public security ministry

Each repatriation flight organized during the Covid-19 pandemic earned profits of several billion Vietnamese dong (VND1 billion = $43,600) after deducting costs, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
June 4, 2022 | 06:19 am PT
Some in Beijing back to work, Shanghai inches closer to ending Covid lockdown

Some in Beijing back to work, Shanghai inches closer to ending Covid lockdown

Streets in Beijing were busier on Monday as residents in two districts were allowed to return to work, while Shanghai inched closer towards lifting its two-month old Covid-19 lockdown from Wednesday, as the number of infections across China dropped.
May 29, 2022 | 10:48 pm PT
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