In India, the health ministry this week advised states to send all positive Covid-19 samples for genome sequencing and asked laboratories to keep an eye out for newer variants. It also ordered …
Monthly Archives For December 2022
Beijing greenlights full border reopening: CE
The central government has agreed to a full border reopening between Hong Kong and the mainland in a gradual and orderly manner that could hopefully …
Beijing Covid wave ‘peaked’ but China months away from tsunami of infections
With nearly 250 million now infected without 20 days, infections may have already peaked in Beijing and could do so in Shanghai soon but it will take months before the country can emerge from the…
China: Covid-19 cases explode; Beijing underplaying health emergency
Almost 250 million people in China might have caught Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December. The figure is according to an internal estimate of Beijing Health Officials, accessed by the Financial Times and…
Beijing’s mass DNA collection forces global lawmakers to halt business with companies supplying tech to China
Under the pretence of eradicating crime the Chinese Communist Party CCP has been carrying out mass surveillance drives in its Uyghur Region Tibet that has
China central banker calls for strengthening property sector policies
A top advisor to the People’s Bank of China on Saturday called for strengthening of real estate policy in light of sluggish economic growth over the past several years as China has pursued its zero-COVID…
China Covid: Corona starts creating havoc in China
Corona has started creating havoc in China. London’s Global Health Intelligence Company Airfinity claims that one million corona patients are coming to the fore daily in China. Also, 5 thousand deaths …
China expresses “resolute opposition” to U.S. defense act – statement
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” towards the U.S. National Defense Authozisation Act, which was signed into law by U.S.
Shanghai asks residents to stay in on Christmas as China COVID surges
Shanghai authorities urged residents to stay at home this weekend, seeking a toned-down Christmas in the nation’s most populous city as COVID-19 rages nationwide after tough curbs were lifted.
China’s propaganda machine sputters in zero-Covid reversal
China’s state media is struggling and censors are working overtime as Beijing gropes for a coherent narrative in the wake of the sudden reversal of its hallmark zero-Covid policy.
As Cases Explode, China’s Low Covid Death Toll Convinces No One
China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.
China is a minefield for international creditors
This month in China, a rumor spread that the founder and chairman of Chinese real estate developer Evergrande had jumped off a building to take his own life. Subsequent reports indicate that Hui Ka …
China’s richest shoppers hold the key to luxury’s future
This was initially driven by China’s first reopening in 2020, but it passed the bling baton to the US in 2021. As China experienced renewed Covid waves and subsequent lockdowns, American shoppers kept …
