Beijing (AFP): China has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV reported, with social media users and travellers squirming over the ...
China has begun using anal swabs to screen Covid-19 infections especially as the country heads towards Lunar New Year holidays. Many squirmed at the idea that has been termed invasive but some ...
Anal coronavirus swabs are now compulsory for anyone arriving in China, despite objections from foreign governments. The 'humiliating' tests require inserting a cotton swab 3 to 5 centimetres (1.2 ...
According to the study, carried out by the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, the virus was similar to SARS-CoV-2 and discovered in 2017 in pangolins before the COVID outbreak. China ...
Four years after COVID-19 swept the globe, there is still no consensus on where it came from. Did the COVID-19 outbreak jump ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. China has systematically suppressed information related to the impact of Covid on its population. For over two years – from mid-April ...
The chief researcher of China's first general-use COVID vaccine was ousted last week from the country's highest organ of power. Yang Xiaoming, 62, was booted on April 23 from the National People's ...
FILE - A security guard waves for journalists to clear the road after a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team entered the Huanan Seafood ... COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China.
BEIJING--China on Saturday said nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospitals since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that ...
Such measures are part of China's uncompromising "zero Covid" strategy. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly warned that no other path is acceptable. After the initial outbreak in Wuhan ...
Request webinar OWID. (June 8, 2022). Total number of coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine booster doses administered in China from November 5, 2021 to June 4, 2022 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista.
The BBC and many other news outlets have called recent demonstrations in China “Covid protests.” But the protests are not simply about stringent Covid-19 policies. Though triggered by ongoing ...