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 ...

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 ...

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.

Data from China shows that no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but also that the country under-represents how many people have died in a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, ...

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 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 ...

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

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’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.

O nce designated a quarantine facility during the Covid pandemic, a sprawling site in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong, is now home to a youth hostel for thousands of young people, as the city deals with a ...

An unused Covid-19 isolation facility in Kai Tak will be converted into a youth hub featuring a hostel with rooms starting at ...