Covid

Coming just three months after an outbreak was acknowledged, the boast is widely disputed

Around 80,000 tourists have been left stranded in a resort city popularly known as China's Hawaii after a Covid-19 flare-up led authorities to impose strict travel restrictions. Tourism hotspot Sanya is a city of more than a million people on the southern...

Cities and towns across China have been issued fresh orders for mass testing and lockdowns as the nation’s Covid-19 case count rose above 1,000 for the first time in two months on July 19, 2022. The epicentre of the mainland’s latest outbreak was in the p...

Surfskating, a novice-friendly version of skateboarding, has taken off in Chinese cities, especially among women. Boosted by the snow-sport buzz after the Winter Olympics, the pasttime has thrived during the Covid-19 curbs that made summer travel difficul...

Shanghai residents queued in sweltering heat for compulsory Covid-19 mass testing on July 14, 2022. New outbreaks fuelled anxiety in the Chinese metropolis city still recovering from a two-month lockdown that was lifted only a few weeks ago.

Hundreds of people in hazmat suits were seen lining the streets of Wuxi, China, on July 1, 2022, waiting to be transported to a quarantine facility. This came after a cluster of 27 new asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were detected that day. China has adhered...

As the globally prominent BA.5 variant of the coronavirus continues to drive a surge in Covid-19 cases in many countries, a new sub-lineage known as BA.2.75 is also on the rise, particularly in India. Although health experts are not yet sure if the mutati...

The Chinese city of Shanghai carried out one of the world's strictest lockdowns to stop the spread of the Covid-19, from March to June 2022.

The Shanghai epidemic prevention agency reported multiple new Covid-19 infected cases on July 03 and 04. The authorities added that there is a risk of social transmission in several districts.

China’s Covid-19 pandemic infection cases continued climbing since a fresh outbreak began in early July 2022, with 24 cases detected nationwide on July 6. Shanghai launched another round of mass testing in nine districts after detecting new cases on July...

Across China, citizens have reported all kinds of hardships due to the Zero-Covid measures in recent months. Some of the reported consequences range from the impossibility of going to work or moving freely, to food and medicine shortages and lack of acces...

DW’s Daniel Satra travels to China to get a sense of the country’s Covid-19 strategy. What he finds is constant mandatory testing, workers dealing with lockdowns and severe isolation rules. The government’s strategy even affects his own reporting. Why doe...

Travelers wanting to get into China will still need to contend with the intricate web of testing and bureaucratic requirements that underpin Covid Zero, tempering optimism that its decision to halve quarantine time signals the country is ready to emerge f...

Students in Beijing began returning for in-person classes on Monday June 27, 2022, as the Covid-19 pandemic situation eased in the Chinese capital. According to the arrangements announced by Li Yi, spokesman of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission,...

Everyone at the massive China World Mall was flagged

North Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a province battling the outbreak of an intestinal disease, state media reported on Sunday.