Covid-19 Archives - China Heralder https://chinaheralder.com/tag/covid-19/ Voice of Great China Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:08:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://chinaheralder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-china-heralder-Favico-32x32.png Covid-19 Archives - China Heralder https://chinaheralder.com/tag/covid-19/ 32 32 Number of foreign visitors to China in 2023 down more than 60% from pre-pandemic levels https://chinaheralder.com/2024/02/05/number-of-foreign-visitors-to-china-in-2023-down-more-than-60-from-pre-pandemic-levels/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:03:14 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=7117 It has been a year since China reopened its borders, but despite loosening its stringent Covid-19 restrictions, foreign travelers have been slow to return to the country with numbers down more than 60% from pre-pandemic levels. China’s border authorities recorded 35.5 million entries and exits by foreign nationals in 2023, according to the National Immigration Administration. That’s nearly […]

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]]> Covid: Top Chinese Scientist Says Don’t Rule Out Lab Leak https://chinaheralder.com/2023/06/21/covid-top-chinese-scientist-says-dont-rule-out-lab-leak/ Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:30:00 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=4937 The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has told BBC News. As head of China’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Prof George Gao played a key role in the pandemic response and efforts to trace its origins. China’s government dismisses any suggestion […]

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]]> Frustration is rising over Covid drug shortages in China, and there are no easy answers https://chinaheralder.com/2023/01/19/us-house-approves-new-china-committee/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:12:27 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=3585 As Jo Wang, an event planner in Beijing, watched her family members fall ill with Covid-19one by one late last month she had a single goal: find antiviral pills to protect her elderly grandfather when his turn came. After three days of trying and failing to purchase a box of Pfizer’s Paxlovid on an e-commerce platform, […]

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]]> China’s market saviour or villain? Global funds attract social media attention in trillion-dollar stock rally as state funds stay out https://chinaheralder.com/2022/12/12/chinas-market-saviour-or-villain-global-funds-attract-social-media-attention-in-trillion-dollar-stock-rally-as-state-funds-stay-out/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 04:10:48 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=3430   Only two months ago, stock investors on China’s social-media platforms were clamouring for state-run funds to intervene and rescue investors from their unprecedented losses. Lately, some have been praising foreign money managers for the US$1 trillion turnaround, while others warned of pitfalls. Global funds have purchased 81 billion yuan (US$11 billion) worth of onshore stocks through […]

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]]> China to abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the ‘Mobile Itinerary card,’ on Tuesday, officials say https://chinaheralder.com/2022/12/12/china-to-abolish-its-covid-19-trace-tracking-service-the-mobile-itinerary-card-on-tuesday-officials-say/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:42:17 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=3420   China will abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the “Mobile Itinerary card,” on Tuesday, officials say. “Mobile Itinerary card inquiry channels such as text messages, web pages, WeChat extensions, Alipay extensions and app will go offline at the same time,” according to a statement from the country’s Academy of Information and Communications Technology. ‘The world […]

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