Topline An emerging outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Shanghai has prompted officials to initiate mass testing in more than half of the city’s neighborhoods while infection surges in other parts of China ...
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Beijing And Shanghai Tighten Covid Restrictions Triggering More Discontent From Residents
Topline China enacted tighter pandemic restrictions in two of its biggest cities—Beijing and Shanghai—on Monday in a renewed push to quash out the spread of Covid-19 in the two cities even as it faces...
Setback In Shanghai As New Covid Cases Reported Beyond Lockdown, Beijing Carries Out More Mass Testing
Topline Shanghai—which has largely remained under lockdown for more than a month—faced a setback on Monday as officials detected 58 new Covid-19 cases outside neighborhoods that are under complete loc...
Shanghai Loosens Restrictions For Millions Of Residents After New Covid Cases Appear To Slow
Topline Shanghai on Wednesday eased Covid restrictions for an additional 4 million people and allowed more factories to resume operations as two districts in the city reported no new Covid-19 cases ou...
Shanghai Reports First Covid Deaths From Current Outbreak As Case Counts Continue To Remain High
Topline Shanghai on Monday reported the first deaths linked to the city’s ongoing Covid-19 outbreak—China’s worst since the start of the pandemic—as the continued rise in cases in eastern China and th...
Shanghai Loosens Some Covid Curbs But U.S. Orders Non-Essential Consulate Staff To Leave City
Topline The U.S. State Department ordered non-emergency consulate staffers to leave Shanghai after previously flagging concerns about the city’s “arbitrary enforcement” of pandemic rules even as local...
Shanghai Eases Restrictions, Non-Essential Travel Banned In Guangzhou As China’s Covid Surge Intensifies
Topline The Chinese port city of Guangzhou banned non-essential travel while Shanghai, the country’s financial hub, is easing lockdown but continues to report a large number of new Covid-19 cases as C...
Hard-Hit Shanghai Extends Covid Lockdown As Cases Surge
Topline Shanghai reported more than 13,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday as the city’s outbreak surges despite an ongoing lockdown, prompting authorities in the Chinese financial hub to indefinitely e...
Shanghai Enters Two-Stage Lockdown As China Scrambles To Contain Covid Surge
Topline The city of Shanghai on Monday entered a two-stage lockdown, China’s biggest in more than two years, as the country’s financial hub with a population of 26 million continued to report a growin...