Streets in China’s major cities were strangely quiet as residents stayed home to protect themselves from the first of an expected three waves of COVID-19.
Monthly Archives For December 2022
In Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy as COVID spreads
Funeral homes scrambled as workers and drivers testing positive for the virus called in sick. It was not immediately clear if the struggle to meet the increased demand for cremations was due to a rise…
Funeral homes struggle to keep up in COVID-hit Beijing
STORY: Queues of hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in Beijing on Saturday (Saturday 17). Workers at the city’s dozen funeral homes were busier than normal,
China’s cities battle first wave of COVID surge as wider spread looms
Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south. China is …
Funeral homes overwhelmed, bodies seen? China may be covering Covid deaths
Staff at a Beijing crematorium told the Financial Times that they cremated the bodies of at least 30 Covid victims on Wednesday.
China set to offer compromise to save summit nature accord
China, which chairs a high-stakes UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, is due to present a long-awaited compromise text on Sunday in an attempt to seal the “peace pact with nature” that the planet sorely needs.
US lawmaker says China’s Huawei attempting to dominate 5G, steal data of Americans
He made these remarks on Tuesday as a bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a bill titled “NETWORKS Act” to sanction China’s Huawei Technologies and Chinese 5G companies.
China’s 2023 Monetary Stimulus to at Least Match 2022: Official
China’s monetary stimulus in 2023 will at least be as strong as this year, with support continuing for targeted areas such as small businesses, a senior central bank official said.
China military moves to protect troops from Covid-19 surge
China’s military has called for special measures to protect the health of soldiers and minimise disruptions to their training as Covid-19 infections surge across the country.
Xinhua Commentary: Lives protected to utmost in China’s three-year battle against COVID-19
It does not run counter to the hard truth that China is one of the world’s best achievers in terms of saving lives from the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past three years, China has withstood…
Report: US solar installations to fall 23% due to Chinese import ban
New US solar installations could decline by nearly one-quarter this year due to a ban on the imports of panels from China Xinjiang region due to concerns about forced labor …
China’s Middle Eastern business will increase yuan-for-oil-deals, but dollar expected to stay dominant in world trade
China’s plan to expand use of its currency for oil trading with six Middle Eastern countries will elevate use of the yuan in global commerce, but it will not unseat the petrodollar or make major…
One Million Could Die From COVID in China, New Study Shows. Here’s What to Know
The country of 1.4 billion has had some of the strictest COVID containment measures in place since the pandemic began …
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