109 people contract Covid over 24 hours; positivity remains above 2pc.
The Newspaper's Staff Reporter Updated 19 Mar, 2023 06:04pm
Areas in China that required no visas before the pandemic will revert to visa-free entry, the foreign ministry said.
Reuters Published 14 Mar, 2023 02:18pm
Says "we will never stop demanding equitable access to life-saving tools".
Reuters Published 12 Mar, 2023 02:52pm
“WHO has not abandoned any plans to identify the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic,” agency's director-general stresses.
AFP Published 03 Mar, 2023 09:27pm
Accuses China or thwarting efforts by US to learn more about the pandemic's origins; Beijing accuses Washington of harming its own credibility.
Reuters | AFP Published 01 Mar, 2023 03:17pm
Chief Executive John Lee announces 500,000 free air tickets for visitors to experience city's “hustle and bustle”.
AFP Published 02 Feb, 2023 06:55pm
WHO's emergency committee has deemed that the pandemic is “probably at a transition point”.
AFP Published 30 Jan, 2023 10:14pm
Beijing’s figures are believed to only represent a fraction of the true toll.
AFP Published 26 Jan, 2023 11:33am
Airfinity, an independent forecasting firm, predicts daily Covid deaths in China will peak at 36,000 over Lunar New Year holiday.
AFP Published 22 Jan, 2023 01:52pm
China has passed the peak of Covid patients in fever clinics, emergency rooms and with critical conditions, a health official said.
Reuters Published 21 Jan, 2023 05:50pm
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