“A huge impact on every family”: Chinese who lost relatives to COVID angry at failure to protect elderly
MARTIN QUIN POLLARD, of Reuters, reports that for many grieving relatives, bereavement is mixed with anger over what they say was a lack of preparation to protect the elderly before China suddenly abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy in December…
China reports huge rise in COVID-related deaths after data criticism
Beijing, ChinaReuters China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country’s coronavirus data. In early December, Beijing abruptly dismantled its strict three-year anti-virus regime of frequent testing, travel curbs […]
China’s vast countryside in rush to bolster COVID defences
Shanghai/Beijing, ChinaReuters China’s thinly resourced countryside is racing to beef up medical facilities before millions of factory workers return home for the Lunar New Year holiday next month from cities where COVID-19 is surging. Having imposed the world’s strictest COVID regime of lockdowns and relentless testing for three years, China reversed course this month towards […]
Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths
Beijing, China Reuters Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases. After widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people this month began dismantling its unpopular […]
New COVID model predicts over a million deaths in China through 2023
Chicago, US Reuters China’s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. According to the group’s projections, cases in China would peak around 1st April, when deaths would reach 322,000. […]
China’s lockdown protests spread to campuses and cities abroad
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Protests against China’s strict zero-COVID policy and restrictions on freedoms have spread to at least a dozen cities around the world in a show of solidarity with rare displays of defiance in China over the weekend. Expatriate dissidents and students staged small-scale vigils and protests in cities around the world including London, […]
Clashes in Shanghai as COVID protests flare across China
Shanghai/Beijing, ChinaReuters Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China’s stringent COVID restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in the wake of a deadly fire in the country’s far west. The wave of civil disobedience is unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi […]
Hong Kong’s ‘zero-COVID’ success now worsens strains of Omicron spike
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong until recently had an enviable record battling COVID-19, but as an Omicron wave now overwhelms the city, the steps that saved lives are making life unbearable for many of its 7.4 million people. Like an immune system overreacting and harming the person it is meant to protect, the “dynamic zero-COVID” […]