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China tests residents with resurgence of COVID-19 cases

Agence France Presse
Posted at Aug 04 04:41 PM

Residents queue to undergo swab testing for COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Read more »

China mass testing shows COVID-19 cases at 6-month high

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 04 02:50 PM

China on Wednesday reported its highest daily number of local coronavirus cases in months as mass testing and contact tracing campaigns uncovered a trail of Delta variant infections. Read more »

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as COVID returns

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 03 01:13 PM

Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year.   Read more »

China, Australia ramp up COVID-19 curbs as Delta variant spreads

Laurie Chen with Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Aug 01 10:25 AM

China and Australia ramped up COVID-19 curbs Saturday as Delta variant cases surged and tens of thousands rallied in France against restrictions designed to stop the pandemic.   Read more »

COVID-19 reaches flood-hit city of Zhengzhou as virus continues to spread across China

Sarah Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 01 07:52 AM

The Delta variant continues to advance across China, with 30 local cases and 25 imported ones reported on Saturday. Zhengzhou was hit by record rainfall last week and the city’s Communist Party chief warned of an ‘extremely serious’ situation with further cases suspected. Read more »

Delta variant drives virus spread to three China provinces

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 29 07:09 PM

BEIJING— China on Thursday reported small coronavirus outbreaks driven by the Delta variant in three provinces as a cluster linked to an eastern airport spreads despite mass testing and a vaccination drive.   Read more »

‘Utang na loob’: Duterte thanks China for donating COVID-19 vaccines in last SONA

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 26 07:13 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday hailed China as the first country to help the Philippines in the fight against COVID-19, saying in his last State of the Nation Address that he is indebted to Asia's largest economy. Read more »

China’s COVID-19 origins snub shows limits to WHO power

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jul 23 01:22 PM

China’s rebuff of the World Health Organization’s planned second phase investigation into the origins of Covid-19 highlights the difficulty it faces in operating amid political pressure from its most powerful members.   Read more »

China rejects WHO plan for study of COVID-19 origin

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 22 01:48 PM

China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said. Read more »

BioNTech produces 10 times more antibodies than China's Sinovac: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 02:59 PM

People who received BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine had 10 times the amount of antibodies than those given China's Sinovac, a Hong Kong study has shown, adding to growing data on different jabs' effectiveness. Read more »

More Sinovac vaccines arrive in Philippines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 14 06:21 PM

A Cebu Pacific flight carrying 1 million doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines has arrived in Manila Wednesday morning. Read more »

China offers COVID-19 vaccines to teenagers

South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jul 14 11:48 AM

China has started to offer COVID-19 vaccines to teenagers, with some provinces aiming to inoculate children as young as 12 by the end of September. Read more »

EXPLAINER: Are Chinese COVID-19 shots effective against the Delta variant?

Reuters
Posted at Jun 29 01:11 PM

Below are views from China's health experts about the effectiveness of home-grown vaccines against the Delta, which is becoming the globally dominant variant, and virus preventive measures China is taking.   Read more »

China to keep COVID-19 border restrictions for another year - WSJ

Reuters
Posted at Jun 22 11:24 PM

China plans to keep pandemic border restrictions in place for at least another year amid fears over the emergence of new variants and a calendar of sensitive events, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more »

China’s COVID-19 vaccination drive hits one billion mark

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jun 20 03:55 PM

The milestone follows significant increase in number of jabs delivered in recent weeks, with China accounting for more than a third of the global total. More than 20 million doses have been delivered on some days, but medical experts warn that significant challenges remain. Read more »

Chinese scientist at center of virus controversy denies lab leak theory

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 10:37 AM

WASHINGTON - The Chinese scientist at the center of theories that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak from her specialized lab in the city of Wuhan has denied her institution was to blame for the health disaster. Read more »

China calls COVID-19 lab-leak theory 'absurd'; US urges transparency

Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 04:15 AM

WASHINGTON/BEIJING - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the origins of COVID-19 in a call with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday and raised other sensitive topics, including China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Read more »

Gold, cash, vouchers among fresh COVID-19 jab incentives for Hongkongers

Denise Tsang, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 09 12:05 PM

Hong Kong businesses are offering hard cash and other prizes in lotteries open to those who have been vaccinated.   Read more »

WHO asks for re-checks of research on when coronavirus first surfaced in Italy

Emilio Parodi, Reuters
Posted at Jun 02 01:17 PM

The UN body reacted to Biden's announcement that intelligence agencies were pursuing rival theories, including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China, by saying the search was being "poisoned by politics".   Read more »

Why scientists are concerned about leaks at biolabs

Issam Ahmed, Lucie Aubourg and Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 30 10:53 AM

While the evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China is strictly circumstantial, a number of experts want tougher controls on such facilities over fears that accidental leaks could touch off the next pandemic.   Read more »