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Countries bring back COVID travel restrictions for visitors from China
Countries across the globe are implementing or considering measures to test or restrict travelers from China as the country of 1.4 billion abandons its COVID-zero policy and prepares...
Chinese officials say it’s fine to go to work sick
Chinese officials and companies are letting COVID-positive people return to work in a bid to keep the economy running, despite a massive COVID surge that could be as...
China finally approves an mRNA COVID vaccine—but only for some foreigners
Two years after the first countries approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine for domestic use, China will finally allow the mRNA vaccine to be used domestically—but there’s a catch....
90% of China could get COVID, warns one of Beijing’s top medical advisors
Investors and businesses may be welcoming China’s surprise pivot from years of COVID-era lockdowns, mass testing and isolation, but one of the country’s top medical advisors is warning...
Amid protests over lockdowns, Goldman Sachs warns that China’s COVID-zero exit may be ‘forced and disorderly’
China’s climbing COVID caseload and expanding lockdown measures, which prompted rare public protests over the weekend, highlight the risk of an unplanned and chaotic exit from the country’s...
China abandons its GDP growth target in favor of COVID controls
Ever since China’s economy ground to a halt during Shanghai’s two-month lockdown, economists have argued that Beijing faces a choice: either relax the country’s COVID-zero policy to promote...
