But it's a very different story in China's overcrowded hospitals, where medical staff are working flat out to treat COVID patients, many of them elderly and un- or under-vaccinated.

A study of affluent Chinese by Oliver Wyman found 22% of respondents were negative about the economy when surveyed in May, ...

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.

The Ministry of Health in China has initiated an emergency campaign to safeguard those at risk of Chikungunya fever illness.

Rare protests that erupted across China at the end of November, demanding an end to the rolling lockdowns and other restrictions of the zero-COVID policy, may have nudged the state away from the ...

"China's COVID situation on the whole remains predictable and under control." Weibo, another widely used social media website, censored critical comments under state media posts about Wang's remarks.

China scrapped its stringent COVID controls last month after protests against them, abandoning a policy that had shielded its 1.4 billion population from the virus for three years.

China’s zero-COVID strategy is an extension of the drastic measures instituted, not only in that country but in others around the world, including the U.S., during the early days of the pandemic ...

Until China increases its vaccination rate for seniors, improves the efficacy of its vaccines and treatments and bolsters its medical resources, it cannot afford to loosen its grip on zero COVID.

As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data. Is it doing enough?

While some 80% of China’s 264 million elderly people are fully vaccinated, that percentage falls to only around half for the group most vulnerable to Covid-19, those over 80 years old.

The surging cases were seen as the biggest challenge yet to China’s uncompromising zero tolerance policy on Covid-19. ... China has administered 2 billion Covid vaccine shots.