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Dec 09, 2022 07:16 AM IST The appeal, sent by Gou in a letter more than a month ago, played a major role in convincing China's leadership to quickly reopen the economy and move away from its zero-tolerance COVID-19 policies, the report said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Dec 09, 2022 06:56 AM IST The world’s most populous nation is rapidly abandoning the mass testing, lockdowns and centralized quarantine that defined the stringent, three year-old policy.
- Dec 08, 2022 10:20 PM IST
While the rest of the world concluded months ago that the coronavirus was becoming less deadly, Beijing presented the development as fresh news to explain its abrupt decision to undo the lockdowns that prompted widespread protests.
- Dec 08, 2022 03:01 PM IST
The year 2022 captured significant and surprising moments. From the Russia-Ukraine war and the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to tennis legend Roger Federer's retirement, the world has seen some remarkable moments unfold this year. Let us take a look at some of noteworthy pictures from the year 2022 that helped capture the essence of these landmark events.
- Dec 07, 2022 03:56 PM IST
The ex-gratia amount to the COVID-19 victims are being given following a Supreme Court order and guidelines issued by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, he said replying to a written question.
- Dec 07, 2022 01:06 PM IST
Rules covering quarantine, people movement, lockdowns and testing were loosened, and other aspects of policy were also adjusted.
- Dec 07, 2022 11:36 AM IST
Sporadic protests have erupted all over China in recent weeks, triggered by the deaths of ten people in a fire in an apartment block in Ürümchi, Xinjiang in November.
- Dec 07, 2022 08:33 AM IST
Gu Xiaohong told the state-run Beijing Daily newspaper that the coronavirus' Chinese name, which identifies it as a pneumonia-causing disease, should be changed to call it simply an infectious virus.
- Dec 06, 2022 02:53 PM IST
Shandong-based pharmaceutical company Buchang Pharma told local news outlet Cailianshe that its factory making a Chinese medicine for lung disease was working around the clock due to "huge demand".
- Dec 06, 2022 10:56 AM IST
As per the new announcement, negative nucleic acid test results are no longer required to enter shopping malls, supermarkets, commercial buildings and residential compounds.
- Dec 06, 2022 09:02 AM IST
Since the pandemic broke out, the Wuhan lab has been the centre of heated debates over the origins of COVID. Both Chinese government officials and lab workers have been denying that the virus originated there.
- Dec 06, 2022 07:23 AM IST
Three years into the pandemic, China's zero-tolerance measures, from shut borders to frequent lockdowns, contrast sharply with the rest of the world, which has largely decided to live with the virus.
- Dec 05, 2022 02:01 PM IST
China may eventually downgrade its management of COVID-19 as a top-level Category A infectious disease to a less strict Category B disease as early as January, the sources said on Monday.
- Dec 05, 2022 01:55 PM IST
Xi Jinping is caught in a bind. Letting protestors go scot-free might encourage similar or bolder protests in the future. But cracking down on them will worsen the current situation
- Dec 05, 2022 01:39 PM IST
Local authorities across China have begun a slow rollback of the restrictions that have governed daily life for years, encouraged by the central government's orders for a new approach to fighting the coronavirus.
- Dec 05, 2022 09:44 AM IST
Three years into the pandemic, China's zero-tolerance measures, from shutting its borders to stifling lockdowns, provide a stark contrast with the rest of the world, which has largely opened up in its efforts to live with the virus.
- Dec 05, 2022 09:29 AM IST
Production of the Apple device was disrupted ahead of Christmas and January's Lunar New Year holidays, with many workers either having to isolate to combat the spread of the virus or fleeing the plant.
- Dec 05, 2022 09:17 AM IST
The financial hub of Shanghai, which saw a gruelling two-month lockdown earlier in the year, scrapped PCR testing requirements to enter outdoor public venues such as parks or use public transportation starting Monday, city authorities said in a statement.
- Dec 05, 2022 07:39 AM IST
Since January 2020, China has classified COVID-19 as a Category B infectious disease but has managed it under Category A protocols, which give local authorities the power to put patients and their close contacts into quarantine and lock down affected regions.
- Dec 03, 2022 09:05 PM IST
The recovery count stood at 10,44,119, leaving the state with an active caseload of eight, he said.
- Dec 03, 2022 12:44 PM IST
The 130-page report, product of an 18-month investigation by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, is packed with startling details about how negligible government oversight and a rush to get cash out the door to help devastated businesses created conditions ripe for fraud
- Dec 03, 2022 12:01 PM IST
As authorities seek to track, intimidate and detain those who marched in defiance of the government’s strict COVID-19 policies last weekend, they are turning to powerful tools of surveillance the state has spent the past decade building for moments such as these
- Dec 02, 2022 12:21 PM IST
To understand the ongoing protests in China, it is necessary to remember that change has been the only constant in that country in the last seven decades
- Dec 02, 2022 10:09 AM IST
The CPC’s self-governance model has not adequately reflected the ‘people’s interests’, but prioritised maintaining ‘political stability’ at all costs for regime survival and continuity
- Dec 01, 2022 02:24 PM IST
Adding to the sense of a shift in direction, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who oversees COVID efforts, said the virus's ability to cause disease was weakening, state media reported.
