Beijing will gradually lift Covid-19 restrictions this week, city officials said Sunday. After some easing in recent days, the Chinese capital — which reported 19 new infections Sunday — announced residents would start returning to work from Monday and schools would reopen from June 13. China is wedded to a zero-Covid strategy of hard lockdowns, … Read more
After a much-necessary relief in terms of daily case count last month, India is once again seeing a massive rise in new Covid-19 infections. The health bulletin released by the Centre shows that the country registered 3,712 fresh coronavirus cases on Thursday. There has been a spurt in the active case count also. The official … Read more
But the rules did little to temper the relief people felt. Cheers and sounds of jubilation rose as the clock struck midnight on Tuesday, signalling the end of the lockdown. Groups of Shanghai residents gathered on street corners, singing and toasting with drinks as they welcomed their newfound freedom. Source link
Even as the world returns to pre-Covid ways, the pandemic is not abating anytime soon. The ferocity of the Delta wave may not be there, but the rate of infection is very consistent. India for example witnessed a sharp surge in the first week of May followed by an almost flat-curve trend. However, as the … Read more
China will broaden its tax credit rebates, postpone social security payments and loan repayments, roll out new investment projects and take other steps to support the economy, state television quoted the cabinet as saying on Monday. Chinese policymakers have pledged to step up support for the world’s second-biggest economy, hit by COVID-19 outbreaks that have … Read more
Shanghai partially restarted public transport Sunday and set out new classifications for Covid-19 risk areas, signaling a gradual reopening after nearly two months sealed off from the outside world. China’s largest city has been almost entirely locked down since April, when it became the epicentre of the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the early days … Read more
Covid-19 in India Live Updates: India recorded 2,364 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases in the country to 4,31,29,563, according to the data shared by the Health Ministry on Thursday. The active cases declined to 15,419, and the death toll climbed to 5,24,303 with 10 fresh fatalities. The active cases were … Read more
Following a gradual decline in daily COVID-19 infections in Shanghai, the city has closed half of its make-shift hospitals, warning the citizens of possible epidemic rebounds in some old neighbourhoods. The patients treated at makeshift hospitals in Shanghai have dropped to about 50,000, one-fifth of the peak number when the epidemic was at its worst, … Read more
Coronavirus Omicron Live Tracker: Pandemic pushes Spanish workers out of the shadows For decades, a cash-filled envelope – or “sobre” – was how hundreds of thousands of Spaniards working without legal contracts in tourism, agriculture or construction collected their salaries. COVID-19, however, may finally be putting paid to the “sobre”, economic data and workers’ experiences … Read more
Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital. China is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its biggest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and … Read more