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China imposes lockdown in parts of Beijing as COVID-19 outbreak continues

BEIJING: Reeling under the mismanagement of Xi Jinping’s Zero-Covid Policy, parts of Beijing have again come under a lockdown on Sunday, as the pandemic outbreak continues to spread in more and more cities in China. The authorities have imposed a lockdown in the Haidian district along with Chaoyang, Fengtai, Shunyi, and Fangshan districts, China’s Global […]

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China reports 10,000 new virus cases

Beijing closed city parks and imposed other restrictions as the country faces a new wave of COVID-19 cases, even as millions of people remained under lockdown Friday in the west and south of China.

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Goods on way to Nepal stuck in Tibet due to COVID-19 restrictions

KATHMANDU: Goods imported by Nepal from China have been shifted to safe storage in Tibet as the administration there extended restrictions over COVID-19 spread. Nepali traders said the goods were on the way to Nepal as the Tibetan administration extended COVID-19 lockdown till September 3. Bhotekoshi Chamber of Commerce President Funu Sherpa said due to […]

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China city mayor apologizes over COVID-19 lockdown response

The mayor of a northeastern Chinese city on the North Korean border that has been under lockdown for more than 50 days has apologized

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Shanghai to ease lockdown in some areas despite rise in COVID infections

Authorities in China's financial centre of Shanghai will start easing lockdown in some areas from Monday, despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new COVID-19 infections, as they strive to get the city moving again after more than two weeks.

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China sees resurgence of COVID-19 cases, Shanghai prompts lockdown for testing

A surge in COVID-19 cases in China's popular metropolis Shanghai has prompted a two-stage lockdown, shutting vehicular as well as people's movements in the 'locked' region to control the virus.

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Businesses shut as officials widen COVID-19 lockdowns in China

MARCH 15: Tens of millions of people across the country face restrictions, including the entire Jilin province and technology hub Shenzhen, as authorities report record numbers of cases. Toyota, Volkswagen and Apple supplier Foxconn are among the firms affected. The lockdowns have raised concerns that crucial supply chains may be disrupted. China on Tuesday reported a record high of more than 5,000 cases, most of it in Jilin. All 24 million residents of the north-eastern province were placed under quarantine orders on Monday. It is the first time China has restricted an entire province since the Wuhan and Hebei lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic. Jilin residents have been banned from moving around, and anyone wanting to leave the province must apply for police permission. It came a day after a five-day lockdown was placed on the 12.5 million residents of the southern city of Shenzhen, with all buses and subway services suspended. On Tuesday authorities in Langfang city which borders the capital Beijing, as well as Dongguan in the southern province of Guangdong, also imposed immediate lockdowns. Businesses in many of the affected regions have been told to close or have their employees work from home, unless they supplied essential services like food, utilities or other necessities. Foxconn, which manufactures iPhones for Apple, stopped its operations in Shenzhen on Monday, saying the date of resumption would "be advised by the local government". But it has several production sites in China and told the BBC it had "adjusted the production line to minimise the potential impact". Its plant in Zhengzhou - the world's largest iPhone factory - remains open, as the city was not hit by the restrictions. Toyota, which shut its factory in Changchun city in Jilin province, did not give a timeline for when business would resume. The Japanese carmaker told the BBC that the move was made to consider the "impact of supplier operation", and the "safety and security of employees and related parties". German carmaker Volkswagen also shuttered operations in Changchun, saying production of Volkswagen and Audi cars and their components were "affected", but that it hoped to reopen its factory on Thursday. On Tuesday the Shanghai Composite lost 5% and the Hang Seng index, where several Chinese technology giants are listed, fell over 6%. Analysts believe that firms would be able to manage the disruptions. "Such lockdowns have happened before, and (cities) have re-opened within a short period of time once the number of Covid cases were within control," Yeang Cheng Ling, senior investment strategist at Singapore's DBS Bank, told the BBC. UBS analyst Grace Chen said Shenzhen was not a "major" production site for suppliers, but it would be worrying if the lockdowns extended to Shanghai and surrounding areas as the region is a key manufacturing hub for notebooks, servers, and smart devices. It feels like China has gone backwards. Two years backwards. To the early days of the outbreak that first emerged here. Drastic measures are being imposed - again - on a large scale, to try to contain the virus. An entire province has been sealed off. The lockdown of Jilin is similar in so many ways to Hubei in early 2020; the area of China where it all began. Shenzhen, the globally important tech hub (where your iPad was most likely made) is also a city in lockdown. Shanghai - where I am writing this - home to 24 million people, is a nervous place. All schools are closed, children are learning online, increasingly people are working from home. Some compounds where people live are enforcing strict rules on who can come in. Deliveries are being sprayed with disinfectant again at the gates. It's all part of the on-going effort to maintain/retain/regain China's "dynamic zero-Covid" strategy. A goal that has been boosted by the mass roll-out of China's homemade vaccines. A goal that has been helped hugely by effectively shutting China's borders. But now a goal that is being significantly undermined by the Omicron variant. China has seen relatively fewer cases of Covid due to its strict zero-Covid policy, where it resorts to rapid lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions whenever clusters have emerged. However the rapid transmissibility of the Omicron variant has made sticking to that approach increasingly challenging. Since the start of the year, China has reported more domestically transmitted cases than in the entire 2021. Top Chinese infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong has called the recent outbreaks "the most difficult period in the last two years of battling Covid" and that they were still in "the early stage of an exponential rise", in an online post widely circulated on social media. But he added that while it was necessary for China to maintain its zero Covid strategy to control the outbreaks for now, "this does not necessarily mean we will continue implementing the strategy of lockdowns and mass testing forever".

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China locks down the city of 9 million

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases

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China locks down the city of 9 million

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases

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China faces challenges amid rising COVID-19 cases ahead of Winter Olympics: Report - Khabarhub

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UK PM confirms further lockdown easing in England from April 12

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday confirmed that from April 12, non-essential shops will reopen and pubs and restaurants will reopen outdoors as Britain moves to step two of the roadmap out of the COVID-19 lockdown. Meanwhile, hairdressers, barbers as well as gyms can reopen, along with zoos, theme parks, libraries and community centers. "The net result of your efforts and of course the vaccine rollout is that I can today confirm that from Monday, April 12, we will move to step two of our road map," said the prime minister. The statement came as the prime minister was speaking at a virtual Downing Street press conference to give an update on his government's anti-coronavirus plan. "But we can't be complacent. ... We still don't know how strong the vaccine shield will be," he said. Johnson said England has managed to meet the "tests" set by the government sufficiently  to go ahead with further easing restrictions on Monday. The government previously set out four "tests" for easing lockdown: the vaccine program continues successfully; vaccines are effective in reducing hospital admissions and deaths; infection rates do not risk overwhelming the British National Health Service (NHS); the variants of concern do not pose a large risk. Nearly 31.6 million people have been given the first jab of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the official figures. To bring life back to normal, countries such as Britain, China, Russia, the United States as well as the European Union have been racing against time to roll out coronavirus vaccines.

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