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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.72%

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.

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.

According to official data, both manufacturing and services activity have contracted for three straight months.

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,…

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.