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News 04/10/22, 00:11

23 cities, including Shanghai city, Zhengzhou city, Henan province, Shizong County, Yunnan province, have implemented a complete or partial lockdown this week that affects China's GDP. According to Reuters, on April 8, Shanghai city announced 21,000 new cases, while the number of cases during the outbreak surpassed 130,000. The city's nearly 25 ...

News 04/09/22, 23:45

According to Bloomberg, Shanghai’s 25 million residents remain under lockdown amid a new COVID-19 surge. At the same time, Guangzhou proposed citywide COVID testing plans in a bid to curb the Omicron variant outbreak. China reported 25,701 new cases on April 8, of which more than 23,600 cases were from Shanghai. ...

News 04/08/22, 23:22

As Shanghai moves to screen through all COVID-positive and close contact citizens, complaints are also mounting at its Nanhui isolation site, where residents of such profiles are centrally put together. Zhimin Liu (pseudonym) told the Epoch Times Chinese, “There was no food, no drinking water, and no hot water. If you’re ...

News 04/08/22, 23:12

According to Caixin, China's services sector activity fell at the steepest pace in two years in March. The Caixin Services Purchasing Managers' Index (Services PMI) released on April 6 recorded 42.0 in March, a sharp drop of 8.2 percentage points from February and the lowest since the first COVID-19 pandemic started ...

News 04/08/22, 22:27

Shanghai, China's major financial hub, reported 21,222 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, April 8. With 824 new symptomatic and 20,398 new asymptomatic cases, the city sets a straight daily record for the seventh consecutive day. One day earlier, the number of asymptomatic cases was 19,660, while the number of symptomatic cases ...

News 04/08/22, 17:14

Recent statements by DEA Director Anne Milgram have made it clear that fentanyl, which has killed thousands of people in the United States by overdose, is produced with chemicals exported from China to criminal networks, reported ABC. Milgram said, "“[W]e do see a large number of young people who are purchasing pills. ...

News 04/08/22, 00:12

In a private consulate message group's posts on WeChat, a US consulate staff in Shanghai on Tuesday, April 5, appealed to colleagues to provide them with some food.The US Marines ran out of fresh food because of a strict coronavirus lockdown from authorities.Reuter reported that the staff said in the ...

News 04/07/22, 23:55

According to the South China Morning Post, the United States embassy in Beijing said in a statement to American citizens on April 6 that ambassador Nicholas Burns and other diplomats in China were raising concerns with Chinese officials "directly" about its COVID-19 control measures. These measures include "residential quarantines, mass testing, ...

News 04/07/22, 17:33

The Walgreens drugstore chain announced on Wednesday, April 6, that it would open more "Health Corner" stores in California to make it easier for people to access health care.  As part of an agreement with health insurer Blue Shield, drugstore giant Walgreens will expand its services to become a place where ...

News 04/07/22, 01:01

Shanghai Municipal health commission updated 16,766 asymptomatic infections on April 5. The Shanghai outbreak is at a crucial moment, racing against time and the virus. On the same day, at the press conference on COVID epidemic prevention, the director of Shanghai's working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, said, "The situation ...

News 04/07/22, 00:52

Hong Kong has continued to see a surge in COVID-19. The death toll from the virus has forced Hong Kong authorities to increase mortuary space. Traditional wooden coffins are running short, and funeral parlors are overwhelmed. 37-year-old funeral director Lok Chung told Reuters, "I have never seen so many bodies piled ...

News 04/06/22, 22:54

Oklahoma lawmakers on Tuesday, April 5, approved a bill that will make abortion illegal in the state, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk and will penalize those who break the law with jail time, according to Fox News.  The law that will make abortion a felony was ...

News 04/05/22, 01:56

As COVID-19 cases continued to increase, on Monday, April 4, China dispatched the military and thousands of healthcare personnel to Shanghai to distribute COVID-19 tests. The city is undergoing massive testing for nearly 25 million citizens in one of the country's largest-ever public health responses. An armed forces newspaper, Xinhua Net, reported ...

News 04/05/22, 01:53

Reuters reported on April 4 that diplomats from over 30 Western countries have jointly urged Shanghai authorities not to separate COVID-positive children from their caregivers. In an effort to curb the virus from spreading, Shanghai authorities have decided to keep infected children away from their parents, citing epidemic prevention requirements. The French ...

News 04/05/22, 01:51

Photos and videos of children held in separate quarantines in Shanghai hospitals went viral on the internet on April 1, provoking widespread anger. A series of hospital cribs, each containing many young children, seemed to be placed in the hallway of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in the city's Jinshan ...

News 04/05/22, 01:48

On behalf of the European Union member states, the Consulate General of France in Shanghai recently sent a letter to the Shanghai Municipal Government on March 31, listing six requirements to draw attention to. The letter was also published on social media Weibo and Twitter. After a strict lockdown was implemented ...

News 04/05/22, 01:36

On April 2, a screenshot of many ships parked outside Shanghai Port widely circulated on the Internet, raising public concerns about the port's operation. According to Caixin, Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) said that the news and the screenshot about severe delays and more than 300 ships waiting for loading and ...

News 04/05/22, 01:21

On April 3, China reported 1,405 confirmed coronavirus cases, compared with 1,506 a day earlier. Asymptomatic cases do not count as confirmed cases. China’s National Health Commission said, among the new cases, 1,366 were locally transmitted, versus 1,455 a day earlier. According to Xinhua News Agency, the number of new asymptomatic cases ...

News 04/05/22, 00:03

China has recently disclosed two novel omicron sub-variants that do not match any existing sequences. According to Bloomberg, over the weekend, Dalian city detected another infection with an omicron sub-variant derived from BA.2. According to Chinese media Sohu, on April 1, Chinese authorities found that the virus gene sequence of a new ...

News 04/04/22, 15:01

A Republican from Florida thinks chronic disease patients are better off losing weight than receiving fixed price medicine. Rep. Matt Gaetz refused to support the Democrat-led House Resolution 6833, which caps insulin prices at $35 a month. He warned the drug only offers temporary relief to a long-term medical condition. "Arbitrary price ...