The China stock market on Wednesday wrote a finish to the five-day slide in which it had plummeted more than 200 points or 6.6 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just beneath the ... ( read original story ...)
Hangzhou Starts Mass Covid Tests; Shanghai Outbreak Eases
The Chinese city of Hangzhou, home to tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., will start mass testing for Covid-19, while cases in Shanghai fell for a fifth day. ( read original story ...)
New tests to decide Shanghai reopening as Beijing stocks up
Shanghai city authorities say a taxing, one-month lockdown of China’s largest city may be eased in some neighborhoods if new COVID-19 testing shows the virus is no longer spreading in the community ... ( read original story ...)
Shanghai resident describes what it’s like inside Covid-19 quarantine facility
Shanghai resident Jane Polubotko describes what it was like to be held inside a government-run Covid-19 quarantine facility. ( read original story ...)
Beijing hoping to avoid Shanghai-style lockdown with mass testing
Millions of people in Beijing took their second Covid-19 tests of the week yesterday as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiralling into an all-out crisis, ... ( read original story ...)
In Shanghai, The Jokes Are No Longer Funny
An essay tracing the evolution of Shanghai lockdown memes from giddy jests about Shanghai culture to gallows humor and gloomy meditations on the state of society was censored last week after going ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases drop for fourth day while Beijing logs record infections after mass tests
While Shanghai recorded its lowest daily number of new cases since April 5, Beijing added a record number of new infections amid heightened concerns that a severe outbreak is developing. ( read original story ...)