Vice Premier Sun Chunlan says the virus is at a “relatively low” level
Reuters Updated 20 Jan, 2023 07:35pm
Rural hospitals, and clinics bolster their supplies of drugs and equipment ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays beginning on Jan 21.
Reuters Published 16 Jan, 2023 01:13pm
The XBB.1.5 subvariant is being detected in small but growing numbers in Europe.
Reuters Published 10 Jan, 2023 06:38pm
With the virus let loose, China has stopped publishing daily infection tallies and reports five or fewer deaths a day since policy U-turn.
Reuters Published 10 Jan, 2023 12:41pm
Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan, says Covid infection rate in the province is 89.0pc.
AFP Published 09 Jan, 2023 11:41am
In Hong Kong, more than 400,000 people are set to travel north in the coming eight weeks.
AFP Updated 08 Jan, 2023 01:44pm
This Lunar New Year public holiday will be the first since 2020 without domestic travel restrictions.
Reuters Published 07 Jan, 2023 06:02pm
Greece, Germany and Sweden join more than a dozen countries to demand Covid tests from Chinese travellers.
Reuters Published 06 Jan, 2023 12:53pm
Health officials abroad are struggling to work out the scale of the outbreak and how to stop it from spreading.
Reuters Published 04 Jan, 2023 10:59pm
China reported five new Covid-19 deaths for Tuesday bringing the official death toll to 5,258, very low by global standards.
Reuters Published 04 Jan, 2023 11:36am
Traffic in the capital builds up again as people flock to outdoor sites.
Reuters Published 02 Jan, 2023 06:15pm
WHO has called the precautionary measures “understandable” in light of the lack of outbreak information provided by Beijing.
AFP Published 02 Jan, 2023 07:01am
From Thursday, travellers will have to present a negative PCR test undertaken less than 48 hours before their flight.
AFP Published 01 Jan, 2023 10:03pm
Health dept records six more cases in province.
Ashfaq Yusufzai Updated 01 Jan, 2023 09:51am
"Let's work harder, persistence means victory, and unity means victory," president says in first comments to public on Covid-19 since his govt changed course.
Reuters Published 31 Dec, 2022 08:53pm
They join Spain, South Korea, Japan, others; Switzerland, Germany hold back as Covid cases continue to rise in China.
AFP Published 31 Dec, 2022 12:45pm
United States and several other countries have introduced mandatory Covid tests on travellers arriving from China.
AFP Updated 30 Dec, 2022 09:56am
In letter to NCOC, health dept recommends quarantines for positives, jabs to be made mandatory for domestic and international travel.
Imtiaz Ali | AFP | Naveed Siddiqui Published 29 Dec, 2022 04:28pm
"An efficient system with a proper management team is fully functional," says an official of the Ministry of National Health Services.
APP Updated 28 Dec, 2022 10:47pm
Nurses and doctors have been asked to work while sick.
Reuters Published 28 Dec, 2022 11:26am
Experts say tourism rebound in China will take time.
AFP Updated 28 Dec, 2022 07:38am
Directs the NCOC, NIH to issue a precautionary Covid variant risk advisory for the public, relevant stakeholders based on scientific analysis of data.
Ikram Junaidi Published 26 Dec, 2022 09:30pm
Calls for fortifying "line of defence for epidemic prevention and control and protecting people's lives, safety, and health".
AFP Published 26 Dec, 2022 06:31pm
Medical staff across China are scrambling to cope after China’s abrupt U-turn on its previously strict Covid-19 policies this month.
Reuters Published 26 Dec, 2022 04:52pm
Directions come from health dept after rising virus cases in country.
Ashfaq Yusufzai Updated 25 Dec, 2022 09:41am