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14 October 2022
Chinese chief epidemiologist Wu Zunyou says China must "stick" with the zero-Covid policy...
This photo taken on August 9, 2022 shows people queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Lhasa, in China's western Tibet Autonomous Region. Photo: CNS / AFP
02 October 2022
A weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown in Tibet has brought an "expansion of already suffocating...
 Passengers arrive at the Hong Kong International Airport on April 1, 2022, after the city lifted a flight ban on nine countries amid the pandemic. Photo: ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP
08 July 2022
Hong Kong's new government on Thursday suspended a longstanding flight route ban that...
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20 June 2022
Many European firms are rethinking their investments in China because of its strict Covid...
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16 June 2022
Shanghai residents react to easing lockdown restrictions after a strict two-month Covid...
A man in protective gear rides a bicycle on the street past the poster of Chinese president Xi Jinping, amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China, 23 May 2022. Photo: EPA
12 June 2022
President Xi Jinping said China must stick "unswervingly" to its zero-Covid strategy, as...
People cross a street in Hong Kong on March 11, 2022. Photo: AFP
12 March 2022
Nearly three-quarters of Hong Kong's refugees are struggling to put food on the table,...
Beijing's Great Hall of the People will host the annual meeting of China's parliament from Saturday. Photo: AFP
06 March 2022
China set its lowest annual GDP target in decades Saturday, as Premier Li Keqiang warned...
Policemen wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) stand at an entrance of a locked down apartment block while residents are tested for Covid-19 after the building's sewage samples tested positive, in Hong Kong on March 4, 2022. Photo: AFP
05 March 2022
Hong Kong on Friday announced it would suspend court services for a month as the city...
People shop at a vegetable stalls in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok area on February 26, 2022. Photo: AFP
27 February 2022
Rivals Singapore and Hong Kong have become pandemic polar opposites, the former opting to...
Hong Kong is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach breaking point. Photo: AFP
20 February 2022
Hong Kong's foreign domestic workers are being "abandoned" in the current coronavirus...
A coronavirus cluster has been detected in Beijing just weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics (AFP/Noel Celis)
24 January 2022
Beijing city officials on Sunday said all two million residents of a neighbourhood where...

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