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...
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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...
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...
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 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...