Category: coronavirus

Lockdown restrictions in Shanghai have resulted in residents thronging supermarkets to stock up on essential supplies. Residents in Shanghai are scrambling to stock up on supplies while thousands quarantine in Continue Reading

More than 20,000 bankers, traders, and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China’s giant financial hub ticking over through Continue Reading

As coronavirus outbreaks spread across China , Shanghai is introducing new rounds of lockdowns to be rolled out sequentially across the city’s neighborhoods, the city government announced on Sunday night, Continue Reading

China began its most extensive lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of Continue Reading

Moderna Inc. Covid-19 vaccine booster shots. Hong Kong’s leader has deflected blame for the failure to get the elderly vaccinated against Covid-19, while a new survey found that nearly half Continue Reading

China is fighting the worst Covid outbreak since 2020, and analysts are considering a revision of their oil demand forecasts as refineries reduce run rates and lockdowns hurt consumption. According Continue Reading

A Covid-19 testing facility set up at a community center in Shanghai.Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Bloomberg News China reported its first Covid-19 deaths since January 2021 as the omicron variant continued Continue Reading

The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai is pushing ahead with a mass testing initiative as it tries to curb a new spike in COVID-19 infections, but some districts were easing Continue Reading

Only half of Chinese aged 80 and older are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, highlighting the risks as President Xi Jinping’s government tries to contain omicron outbreaks nationwide. About 51% of Continue Reading