For nearly two years, China’s daily Covid caseload rarely extended into triple digits, and often weeks went by without a single case. Even as the rest of the world struggled to contain new, more ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

China's National Health Commission said that nearly 60,000 people died of covid since the dismantling of the zero-covid policy in early December. (Video: Reuters) ...

China relaxes rules on COVID quarantine and lockdowns following protests 04:12. Beijing — China may be pivoting away from its strict zero-COVID measures, but you'd never know it in Beijing.

Since China dropped its strict “zero Covid” policy, a joke has been making the rounds on social media about the sudden shift. Three men who don’t know one another sit in a prison cell.

China defended on Thursday its handling of its raging COVID-19 outbreak after U.S. President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus ...

Hospitals in China are reported to be filling up with Covid patients after infections surged when the country relaxed its lockdown rules. The government says it is ramping up its vaccination ...

China’s Zero-Covid approach in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak of early 2020 rested on a 76-day mass lockdown, mass testing, intense surveillance, isolation, quarantines, and border closures.

Nearly three years into the pandemic, China is sticking with a strict COVID-19 containment policy that has caused mounting economic damage and widespread frustration, while keeping its borders ...

In December, China abruptly abandoned its draconian “Zero Covid” policies, battered by a surge of infections and rising public anger against lockdowns.

Even as China declares its second Covid wave over, families both inside and outside China are still grappling with the trauma from the first one. The government’s abrupt lifting of “zero-Covid ...