Travellers entering China will no longer need to provide a negative PCR test result starting from April 29, 2023 | file photo | Photo Credit: AP Travellers entering China will no longer need to provide a negative PCR test result starting from Saturday, in another easing of China’s “zero-COVID” policies. Travellers can instead show a negative antigen … Read more
BEIJING: China on Thursday accused “some Western media” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s abrupt ending of its strict “zero-COVID” policy, as it issued a vigorous defense of actions taken to prepare for the change of strategy. The move in December to end mass testing and quarantines led to a … Read more
Beijing’s sudden pivot away from containing Covid-19 has caused jitters around the world, with the United States saying it may restrict travel from China following its decision to end mandatory quarantine for overseas arrivals. China late Monday scrapped quarantine for inbound travellers from January 8 onwards, dismantling the last remaining piece of its stringent zero-Covid … Read more
Beijing: A Chinese healthcare platform has started selling Pfizer‘s oral COVID treatment pill Paxlovid in what appears to be the first retail sale of the drug in the country, as China braces for a surge in COVID patients. The medication sold out just over half an hour after the listing was reported in the media, … Read more
A resident receives a health check before getting a COVID-19 vaccine in China’s southwestern Guizhou province on December 12, 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP China’s sudden easing of restrictions on December 7 after three years of a zero-COVID policy has left many hospitals unprepared to deal with the current surge of cases in many Chinese … Read more
Expectations of China relaxing its policy by the end of March as it completed holding of the Winter Olympics and set to end the Winter Paralympics as well as completion of the annual Parliament session has not materialised so far. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday did not give any definite road map to revise … Read more