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'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on

WUHAN, China: Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus.

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'We can't wait!' Jubilant Chinese head home for Lunar New Year

On the Shanghai-Wuhan train (China) (AFP) - Piling onto a packed train, factory owner Wang Chunfeng was among millions of Chinese looking to make up for lost time this Lunar New Year after years of pandemic-enforced separation from family.

AFP

Coronavirus: China masses take Covid fight into own hands as Xi Jinping sits back

BEIJING: Left to fend for herself after China abruptly ended the world’s strictest Covid restrictions, 31-year-old Share Xue and her daughter found themselves with 40C (104F) fevers and an expired bottle of Motrin.

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China economic growth slows less than forecast as recovery seen

Covid restrictions have resulted in China's 2nd slowest economic growth since the 1970s. However, better-than forecast fourth quarter and December data is a silver lining for the country

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Japanese, U.S. companies rushing to pull production out of China

Companies from Japan, the United States and other nations are accelerating their moves to shift production out of China, to lessen the risk of disruption in their supply chains due to abrupt changes in Chinese government policy and turmoil following the spread of COVID-19.

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Coronavirus: China’s hospital Covid death data just a tenth of total toll

BEIJING: The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

The Times of India

'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hard

BENGBU (CHINA): Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients -- in Anhui, one of east China's poorest provinces, Covid-19 hit hard.

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China imposes transit curbs for S.Korea, Japan; WHO voices concern over data

The World Health Organisation said a lack of data was making it challenging to help China manage the risks of a COVID-19 surge over the Lunar New Year holiday, as the world's second-largest economy reopens after three years of isolation.

Reuters

Chinese official says ‘90% of province infected with Covid’ as test workers clash with police

Protests outside an antigen test factory erupted over the layoff of several workers, according to reports

Evening Standard

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.58% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.72%

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‘Finally we are reconnected to the world’ – China reopens its borders after three years of strict Covid curbs

Chinese police have clashed with hundreds of workers at a Covid test-kit factory after several were allegedly sacked and denied their pay following the lifting of restrictions.

Irish Independent

Protesters clash with police at COVID antigen kit maker factory in China, videos show

Protesters clashed with police in central China during a demonstration on Saturday by hundreds of people at a factory producing COVID-19 antigen kits, several videos posted to social media showed.

Reuters

Why Xi Jinping reversed his zero-covid policy

A wave of protests, among other reasons, finally prodded the leader to scrap the strict lockdown system

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Why Xi Jinping reversed his zero-Covid policy

A wave of protests, among other reasons, finally prodded the leader to scrap the strict lockdown system.China’s containment measures had come at a high cost, cutting sharply into its exports and retail sales, draining local finances and driving parts of the population to a near-breaking point.

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China COVID data shows no new variant but under-reports deaths, WHO says

Data from China shows that no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but also that the country under-represents how many people have died in a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.

AFP

Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surge

Shanghai (AFP) - Coughing, groaning, and gasping for breath, elderly Covid patients crammed hospital corridors in Shanghai on Tuesday as a wave of Covid-19 cases raged through the Chinese megacity.

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Covid has infected over 70% population in this Chinese city in recent surge

The current infection count is 20 to 30 times more than in April and May, a top doctor informed

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China State Media Plays Down Severity of COVID Wave before WHO Meeting

State media in China played down the severity of its surge of COVID-19 infections ahead of an expected briefing on Tuesday by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which is hoping for detailed data on the evolution of the virus. China's abrupt U-turn on COVID controls on Dec. 7,…

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Subway traffic rise hints at Covid peak in China

Nearly a dozen major Chinese cities are reporting a recovery in subway use, a sign that an “exit wave” of Covid infections may have peaked in some urban areas.

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Up to 70% of Shanghai population infected with Covid: top doctor

Shanghai (AFP) - A senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals has said 70 percent of the megacity's population may have been infected with Covid-19 during China's huge surge in cases, state media reported Tuesday.

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iPhone city is back at 90% capacity in China after Covid turmoil subsides

Foxconn’s plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou is now operating with roughly 200,000 staff

Asharq Al-Awsat

Some in China Return to Regular Activity after COVID Infections

Some people in China's key cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, confident of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections. Among those who gathered to sled or ice skate on a…

Bangkok Post

Xi calls for unity in Covid battle

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Saturday for more effort and unity as the country enters a “new phase” in its approach to combating the pandemic, in his first public comments on Covid-19 since his government changed course three weeks ago and ditched its rigorous policy of lockdowns and…

The Independent UK

China faces bumpy road to normal as infections surge

China is on a bumpy road back to normal life as schools, shopping malls and restaurants fill up again following the abrupt end of some of the world’s most severe restrictions even as hospitals are swamped with feverish, wheezing COVID-19 patients

Asharq Al-Awsat

Global Alarm Grows over China's Covid Surge

The United States is the latest in a growing number of countries to impose restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing abruptly removed a major impediment to overseas travel despite surging Covid cases at home. Hospitals across China have been overwhelmed by an explosion of Covid cases following Beijing's decision…

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