Category: coronavirus

Covid cases in Shanghai hit their highest level yet as authorities in the locked-down city stepped up their battle to suppress China’s worst outbreak in two years. Shanghai, which is Continue Reading

A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China’s stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in Continue Reading

 After two years of relying on broad, hard-edged lockdowns to control Covid-19, Chinese leader Xi Jinping tried something new in Shanghai. Mindful of the economic toll and public anger from Continue Reading

Nearly a week into a citywide lockdown to combat a Covid-19 outbreak , many of Shanghai’s 25 million residents turned to social media for help to get food, medicine or, Continue Reading

A spate of lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities is piling severe pressure on transport and logistics across the country, exacerbating the economic fallout of the government’s commitment to Continue Reading

The government has been under pressure to quickly deliver food supplies to residents Some residents under lockdown in Shanghai say they are running out of food, amid the city’s biggest-ever Continue Reading

Traditional wooden coffins are running short in Hong Kong as authorities scramble to add mortuary space in the global financial hub’s battle on COVID-19, which is swamping funeral parlours. “I Continue Reading

Shanghai on Wednesday made some concessions on a widely unpopular child separation COVID policy, in a nod to growing public frustration as it extends a citywide lockdown that has left Continue Reading

The elderly woman slouched in a chair in Shanghai’s cool spring weather as her three companions squabbled with police and others clad in white biohazard suits, the only people visible Continue Reading