Coronavirus outbreak in China

Belgium

EU bloc to discuss 'coordinated approach' to China's COVID-19 wave

The European Commission will discuss a 'coordinated approach' to the explosion of COVID-19 cases in China in a meeting on Thursday. This follows new mandatory testing requirements for the arrival of all travellers from China to the US, Japan, India and Italy.

29/12/2022

China

China to permit international travel in January as COVID-19 cases soar

The Chinese government claims it has the pandemic under control, and it is ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad while letting foreigners come in starting 8 January.

27/12/2022

China

China's emergency rooms 'overwhelmed' as COVID-19 wave sweeps country

China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that excludes many deaths that would be attributed to COVID-19 in other places.

26/12/2022

China

'Tragic battle': Half of Shanghai will get COVID, warns hospital

China's official death count since the pandemic began three years ago stands at 5,241 as critics claim its definition of COVID-related death is too narrow.

22/12/2022

China

China might be underreporting its COVID-related death toll — experts

The Asian giant only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, practice health experts say is questionable now that we know how the illness works.

21/12/2022

China

China's coronavirus death toll spikes after 'zero-covid' policy ends

Some scientific models have estimated numbers will rise with an eventual death toll in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

20/12/2022

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03/12/2022

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China's Jilin province tightens control to prevent virus spread

Health authorities reported 4,770 new infections across the country, the bulk in Jilin province, as the nation's "zero-COVID" strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave.

22/03/2022

Travel News

Record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid COVID crisis

Tsang Yin-Hung climbed Mount Everest in 25 hours and 50 minutes last month.

22/06/2021

World News

'All hypotheses' still on table over COVID-19's origins — WHO chief

The World Health Organisation's director-general's remarks come after the team visiting China suggested a leak from a lab was 'very unlikely'

12/02/2021

China

China: WHO investigators visit second Wuhan hospital

Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital was one of the city’s first to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a then-unknown virus and is a key part of the epidemiological history of the disease.

30/01/2021

China

WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early COVID patients

A World Health Organization team visited a hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus.

29/01/2021

China

China expands lockdowns, cancels summit, amid new COVID-19 outbreak

World Health Organization scientists are due to arrive in China on Thursday to investigate the origins of the coronavirus.

12/01/2021

Travel News

Harbin Ice and Snow Festival halted by new COVID-19 cases

The home of one of the world’s biggest ice and snow theme parks has had to scale back events due to COVID-19.

06/01/2021

China

China jails citizen journalist for reports on Wuhan COVID-19 lockdown

Zhang Zhan's broadcasts from inside the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak were widely shared on social media before she was arrested in May.

28/12/2020

China

Coronavirus: China to test entire city of 9 million people over 5 days

Earlier this year, China screened the whole city of Wuhan, home to around 11 million people, for the virus.

12/10/2020