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• Health QR codes are one of the most powerful tools in China’s antivirus arsenal, but a recent scandal in Henan province shows how open they are to misuse
• Authorities should waste no time putting more safeguards in place – and offer their unequivocal assurances that the system will not become a (...)
Jia Kang reports on the restriction of personal freedoms as the Chinese authorities attempt to manage an outbreak of the Covid omicron variant by locking down a large part of Shanghai.
In China, the repression of freedom of speech has become increasingly fierce, and now it has evolved into (...)
Au Loong-yu writes on the ongoing lockdown in Shanghai and the consequences of a zero Covid policy under despotic rule.
Or, to be precise, is the “Cultural Revolution” making a comeback to 22 cities or regions in China because of the lockdown to get rid of Covid? Shanghai is singled out only (...)
The Wuhan Covid-19 epidemic spread in lightning speed and it has turned into a global pandemic. It was avoidable from the very beginning. There were several weeks to stop it from spreading to the whole country before the “chunyun” – Spring Festival travel rush, which during Chinese New Year 2018 (...)
Authorities urge residents of nearby community to report any meetings with four patients. Pursuit follows attempts by top city officials to reassure public that life will soon get back to normal.
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan are pursuing the close contacts of three (...)
Chinese Jia county goes into coronavirus lockdown as country tries to get back to work amid fear of second wave
by Guo Rui & Echo Xie (SCMP) - in Beijing
https://www.scmp.com/print/news/china/society/article/3078010/chinese-county-goes-coronavirus-lockdown-country-tries-get-back (...)
This interview with Kevin Lin explains how medical personnel in Wuhan, China sounded the alarm in late December as the coronavirus began to spread. After an initial period of denial and scapegoating, Chinese leaders took decisive actions to contain the virus, even as some of those actions (...)
After weeks of living under lockdown, people in most parts of Hubei were told this week they could finally leave, but authorities in neighbouring regions remain cautious. Dispute on bridge between Huangmei and Jiujiang that saw police vans overturned, apparently started because of confusion (...)
Despite claims made by mainland authorities that there have been no new local infections of the coronavirus in Wuhan in the last few days, people there have told RTHK this is simply not the case. They say patients are being turned away from hospitals without testing to back the official data, (...)
• Deputy governor of China’s central bank Chen Yulu says it is ‘too early’ to call it a global financial crisis
• Beijing has been talking to the US Federal Reserve and International Monetary Fund
China is looking to multilateral bodies like the G20 and the International Monetary Fund to (...)
• A 36-year-old man has died in Wuhan from respiratory failure days after being discharged from hospital
• Latest data from the mainland shows most new infections continue to occur at epidemic’s epicentre
A 36-year-old man has died of respiratory failure in Wuhan, five days after being (...)
Women make up more than half the doctors and 90 per cent of nurses battling the epidemic in Hubei, yet have been forced to forgo sanitary supplies as they were not deemed ‘critical’. Thankfully, after an online outcry, this is changing
Overworked and exhausted, Chinese doctors and nurses (...)
• No reason was given for the closure of Shanghai facility, which released information about the virus ahead of authorities
• One source at the laboratory said the closure has hampered scientists’ research when they should be ‘racing against the clock’
The Shanghai laboratory where researchers (...)
• Three most senior Communist Party leaders in southwestern city of Dali sacked for intercepting masks being delivered to Chongqing
• Guangdong, the second worst-hit province, downgrades its alert, as data suggests the outbreak is being largely contained outside the Hubei province epicentre
All (...)
• China reports 105 more deaths, taking global toll to 1,775
• Hubei province’s new Communist Party chief calls for less bureaucracy as number of new infections rises again
• World Health Organisation says it is impossible to predict the future path of the epidemic, which has spread to at least (...)
The plague)
In 1643, a fierce plague erupted in China. As the capital of the Great Ming, which was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by Han Chinese, Beijing was also a severely infected city. According to historical records, at the height of the plague over ten thousands of residents (...)
• Authorities confirm that 1,716 health care workers have been infected with Covid-19.
• Numbers affected are greater than those recorded during the 2003 Sars
More than a thousand health care workers have been infected with Covid-19, many of whom contracted the virus that causes the disease in (...)
• Public fury is growing, with calls for more freedom of speech, but observers don’t expect any dramatic changes
• Xi Jinping has been mostly absent from view, as heads start to roll in Hubei province
Right in the centre of China, the city of Wuhan in Hubei province has also been at the heart of (...)
• Thousands of people are not getting the treatment they need because medical resources have been diverted to fight outbreak
• One hospital says it can no longer offer transplant surgery as it doesn’t have enough doctors and blood products
In the packed hospitals of Wuhan, coronavirus patients (...)
Country could have contained spread of disease if only it had learned lessons from Sars outbreak.
The death of the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang has aroused strong emotions across China. Social media is awash with posts mourning the death of a martyr who tried to raise alarm over (...)
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