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Some in China Return to Regular Activity after COVID Infections

Some people in China's key cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, confident of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections. Among those who gathered to sled or ice skate on a…

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Some in China return to regular activity after COVID infections

Some people in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a rise in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, raising the prospect of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections.

Reuters

Covid: How news of ‘mystery illness’ in Wuhan first broke three years ago

Experts suspected a link to city’s seafood market

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Chinese state media seek to reassure public over Covid-19

WUHAN: Thousands of Chinese took to the streets to mark the New Year as authorities and state media sought to reassure the public that the Covid-19 outbreak sweeping across the country was under control and nearing its peak.

Bangkok Post

Chinese state media seek to reassure public over COVID-19

Thousands of Chinese took to the streets to mark the New Year as authorities and state media sought to reassure the public that the COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country was under control and nearing its peak.

Reuters

More Countries Roll Out China Traveler Checks

Travelers from China now face restrictions when entering more than a dozen countries as concern grows over its surge in Covid-19 cases. China on Sunday reported more than 5,100 new infections and one death linked to Covid out of its population of 1.4 billion. Last month, Beijing abruptly began dismantling…

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New Year’s Eve celebrations: fireworks and festivities amid global uncertainties

Jubilant crowds ushered in 2023 with the first large gatherings without restrictions in many cities since before the pandemic

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Thousands celebrate the new year in Wuhan amidst China's COVID wave

Thousands gathered in central Wuhan on Saturday night to count down to the start of what many hoped would be a much better year after a "tough" 2022 filled with lockdowns and in December a major new outbreak of the coronavirus.

Reuters

Wuhan Covid whistleblower banned from writing as her phone tapped and movements watched

Fang Fang, 67, said she is feeling 'somewhat depressed' after facing pressure and restrictions from Chinese authorities over her reporting of coronavirus in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic

Daily Mirror

From zero-tolerance into the unknown – a visual guide to three years of Covid in China

In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virus

The Guardian - AU

Chinese struggle to ‘summon the courage’ to live with COVID-19

People in China have been told for years that COVID is deadly, leaving them struggling to cope with newfound openness.

Al Jazeera

China's loosened COVID-19 policies – following years of aggressive lockdowns and quarantines – have left the country vulnerable

After nearly three years of aiming to eliminate COVID-19 through mass lockdowns, robust contact tracing programs and international travel bans, the Chinese government has announced it is rolling back the “zero-COVID” policies that helped suppress the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The Chinese Communist Party announced these changes…

The Conversation

Businesses in China's Wuhan face fresh worries after Covid easing

WUHAN, China: Infections are delivering a fresh kick in the teeth for many small businesses in China's central city of Wuhan, despite the easing of most stringent curbs last week.

Bangkok Post

Businesses in China's Wuhan face fresh worries after COVID easing

Infections are delivering a fresh kick in the teeth for many small businesses in China's central city of Wuhan, despite the easing of most stringent curbs last week.

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Man, 26, with cancer locked down in China apartment as mum faces 'horrendous' ordeal

Matty Read from Everton is facing a costly cancer fight while remaining under strict lockdown

Reuters

In China's Wuhan, a shadow of reserve and resentment even as COVID lockdowns ease

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities this week.

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China scrambles to recalibrate 'zero-COVID' policy

WUHAN, China/BEIJING -- The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping has rolled back some elements of its "zero-COVID" policy, as the slowing economy and public frustration with strict infection prevention measures stoke concerns within the government.

The Times of India

Was coronavirus a lab leak? A startling revelation about origin of Covid-19

NEW DELHI: A US-based scientist, Andrew Huff, who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan, has claimed that Covid-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility.

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Irish Mirror

Scientist who worked for US-funded Wuhan lab makes terrifying claims about Covid's origin

"China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent"

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China Reports 2 New COVID Deaths as Some Restrictions Eased

China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures. The National Health Commission said one death was reported each in the provinces of Shandong and Sichuan. No information was given about the ages…

Tribune News Service

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Shanghai protests over zero-Covid policy spark clashes

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan are also rocked by demonstrations as anger over restrictions builds. Plus: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow Arctic thawing?

The Guardian - AU

Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan see demonstrations as anger over Xi Jinping’s strict Covid policies builds, in a test for the Communist party

Tribune News Service

This nation was ready for COVID. Now it’s eyeing the next threat

Two weeks before China disclosed it was investigating a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan in late 2019 — what the world now knows as COVID-19 — South Korea’s top health officials gathered for a quarterly table-top exercise to plan their response to a theoretical health threat.

The Guardian - UK

Xi’s iron grip on his country is stopping the Covid U-turn it so desperately needs

As the rest of the world breaks free of the virus, China has doubled down on draconian measures

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