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China's Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday. Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no COVID deaths on the mainland for the five…

Officially China has reported just 5,237 Covid-related deaths

China reported its first COVID-related deaths in weeks on Monday amid rising doubts over whether the official count was capturing the full toll of a disease that is ripping through cities after the government relaxed strict anti-virus controls.

Health officials cease recording asymptomatic cases as shortages of medical supplies and testing kits reported in wake of sudden end to strict Covid policy

China's National Health Commission (NHC) will roll out the second COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for high-risk groups and elderly people over 60 years old, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

Changes come after historic protests against the regime’s Zero Covid policy

China reported 36,061 new COVID-19 infections for Wednesday, of which 4,150 were symptomatic and 31,911 asymptomatic, the National Health Commission (NHC) said.

Lawrence Young, a virologist and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Warwick, told the Standard that China is in a ‘terrible dilemma’

Simmering discontent with stringent COVID policies three years into the pandemic have ignited into broader protests.

In November, most people are bundled up in warm clothes, beginning to scrape ice off their cars and turning on their fireplaces.

The platform will expand on the use of digital health codes, which are not the same as the digital QR codes that track people’s Covid-related test records and travel history, an expert says