China Eases Covid Testing Requirements For U.S. Travelers, Shanghai Inches Towards Reopening

Topline Chinese authorities have eased Covid-19 testing requirements for travelers flying from the U.S. and a few other countries as China seeks to restore normalcy after its economy was hit by pandem...

Shanghai Hits Key ‘Zero-Covid’ Milestone But No Immediate End To Lockdown Despite Concerns About China’s Economy

Topline Shanghai on Tuesday achieved a key milestone in its reopening plan of three consecutive days with no new Covid-19 cases outside designated quarantine zones, however, most of the city’s residen...

Shanghai’s Strict 6-Week Lockdown Nears End As Covid Outbreak Eases

Topline Covid-19 cases in Shanghai continued to decline, prompting authorities on Monday to announce plans for a phased reopening of the city after it endured six weeks of stringent lockdowns that lef...

China Social Media Bilibili Trims Revenue Forecast, Gets A Bump In Users Amid Lockdowns

Rui Chen, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Bilibili, speaks during the … [+] company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq back in 2018. Photographer: Michae...

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...

Beijing Locks Down Residential Complexes And Moves Classes Online As Covid Cases Rise

Topline Authorities in Beijing ordered the switch to online classes for several schools in the city and locked down a number of residential compounds and offices amid concerns the Chinese capital coul...

Beijing Expands Covid Mass Testing To Nearly 20 Million Residents As It Races To Avoid Shanghai-Style Lockdown

Topline Authorities in Beijing have ordered nearly 20 million of its residents to undergo mass Covid-19 testing starting Tuesday—expanding an effort that began in the city’s business district a day ea...

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...

China’s Tech Leaders Warn Of Widespread Production Halt If Shanghai Lockdown Continues

Richard Yu, chief executive officer of the consumer business at Huawei Technologies, talks about the Huawei Mate 30 smartphone in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 19, 2019. Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg T...

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 Expands Lockdown As Covid Outbreak Worsens

Topline Authorities in Shanghai have expanded its pandemic restrictions by locking down western parts of the city two days ahead of schedule as the number of Covid-19 cases in China’s financial ...

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...