The NB.1.8.1 COVID variant has spread to multiple US states after causing significant surges in China and Hong Kong. Health ...

Good morning. China is pulling out all the stops to control the spread of the chikungunya virus – more on that below, along ...

CHINESE officials have imposed Covid-like measures in parts of the country in an effort to curb surging cases of a “disabling ...

But it's a very different story in China's overcrowded hospitals, where medical staff are working flat out to treat COVID patients, many of them elderly and un- or under-vaccinated.

Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts.

"China's COVID situation on the whole remains predictable and under control." Weibo, another widely used social media website, censored critical comments under state media posts about Wang's remarks.

China’s Zero-Covid approach in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak of early 2020 rested on a 76-day mass lockdown, mass testing, intense surveillance, isolation, quarantines, and border closures.

As of one week ago China has been allowing people infected with COVID-19 to quarantine at home with asymptomatic or mild cases, and it has dropped the requirement for everyone to show a recent ...

China scrapped its stringent COVID controls last month after protests against them, abandoning a policy that had shielded its 1.4 billion population from the virus for three years.

Until China increases its vaccination rate for seniors, improves the efficacy of its vaccines and treatments and bolsters its medical resources, it cannot afford to loosen its grip on zero COVID.

While some 80% of China’s 264 million elderly people are fully vaccinated, that percentage falls to only around half for the group most vulnerable to Covid-19, those over 80 years old.

China regulates accountancy, law, retail and even estate agents more tightly than the average member of the OECD, a club of ...