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A health worker takes a swab sample on a man to be tested for COVID-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site along a street in Beijing on 25 April 2022. Picture: Noel Celis/AFP

Beijing

Millions in Beijing urged to work from home to fight COVID outbreak

By AFP

Chinese authorities have pressed on with their zero-COVID policy involving lockdowns and mass testing as they battle the biggest outbreak since the early days...

  • A health worker takes a swab sample on a man to be tested for COVID-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site along a street in Beijing on 25 April 2022. Picture: Noel Celis/AFP

    Beijing expands mass testing as lockdown fears grow

    China is trying to contain a wave of infections in Shanghai - its biggest city - which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and reported 52 new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday.

    23 days ago
  • People wait in line to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site in Beijing on 25 April 2022. Picture: Noel Celis/AFP

    Beijing COVID spike prompts mass testing, panic buying

    Downtown Beijing's most populous district Chaoyang, home to around 3.5 million people, ordered mass testing from Monday for residents and those coming to work there. The area hosts the headquarters of many multinational firms and embassies.

    24 days ago
  • A man walks in front of a Olympic Rings, at the Wukesong Sports Centre, venue for the ice hockey competition during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in Beijing on January 18, 2022. Picture: Noel Celis / AFP.

    Beijing tests 2 million for coronavirus as Winter Olympics loom

    China's cases constitute a tiny fraction of the massive surge in countries around the globe, with the highly contagious Omicron variant driving a fresh spike in infections.

    116 days ago
  • Buildings are seen in the central business district on a polluted day in Beijing on 5 November 2021. Picture: JADE GAO/AFP

    Beijing shuts roads, playgrounds amid heavy smog after coal spike

    A thick haze of smog blanketed swathes of northern China on Friday, with visibility in some areas reduced to less than 200 metres (yards), according to the country's weather forecaster.

    195 days ago
  • FILE: A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a nucleic acid sample collection station at a park in Beijing on 5 August 2021. Picture: Noel Celis/AFP

    Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four COVID cases found

    The latest flare-up has prompted the grounding of hundreds of flights, the closure of scenic areas and schools and a flurry of stay-home orders in affected housing compounds.

    209 days ago
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP

    China's Xi warns of 'grim' situation with Taiwan

    China views self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to retake it one day, by force if necessary.

    235 days ago
  • Passengers rest as they wait for their flights at Beijing's Daxing International Airport on July 12, 2021, as hundreds of flights were cancelled in the capital due to torrential downpours and gale-force winds. Picture: Wang Zhao / AFP

    Flights cancelled and schools closed as Beijing hit by storm

    City authorities issued warnings to residents to stay home as the Chinese capital faced its biggest storm this year.

    311 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: AFP.

    China passes anti-foreign sanctions law

    Beijing has accused the United States of "suppressing" Chinese firms and issued veiled threats of retaliation after President Joe Biden last week expanded a blacklist of companies Americans are barred from investing in.

    343 days ago
  • FILE: On Tuesday, as outrage billowed across China's social media, he released an apology on the Weibo platform in conversational-level Mandarin. Picture: Getty Images/AFP

    Fast & Furious star Cena apologises for calling Taiwan a country

    Beijing sees democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory which is to be seized one day, by force if necessary, and rages at any diplomatic attempts to recognise the island as an independent nation.

    358 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden. Picture: AFP.

    US warns China will use Olympics to gloss over abuses

    Human rights groups and figures from former president Donald Trump's Republican Party have urged a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, amid a sharp deterioration of relations between the United States and China.

    367 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a state banquet at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila on 20 November, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    China now 'non-compliant' with Hong Kong joint declaration: UK

    "The UK now considers Beijing to be in a state of ongoing non-compliance with the Sino-British Joint Declaration," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

    432 days ago
  • Ben Chung (second right) of a pro-democracy political group is arrested by police in the Central district after as many as 50 Hong Kong opposition figures were arrested in Hong Kong on 6 January 2021, under a new national security law. Picture: AFP.

    Dozens of Hong Kong dissidents charged with security crime

    On Sunday, police confirmed 47 of them had now been charged with one count each of "conspiracy to commit subversion" -- one of the new national security crimes -

    445 days ago
  • FILE: A Muslim ethnic Uighur woman walks on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region ahead of the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity. Picture: AFP

    China targets Muslim minorities with more prosecutions, longer prison terms:HRW

    More than 250,000 people in the northwestern region have been formally sentenced and imprisoned since 2016, according to Human Rights Watch.

    449 days ago
  • This handout photograph released on 5 February 2021 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows an image of Mars captured by China's Mars probe Tianwen-1. Picture: China National Space Administration/AFP

    China's Mars probe sends back video of Red Planet

    In the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch-black sky against the outside of the Tianwen-1, which entered the orbit of the Red Planet on Wednesday.

    461 days ago
  • FILE: China has been racing to develop homegrown jabs and aims to vaccinate 50 million people before the start of the Lunar New Year in mid-February. Picture: 123rf

    China approves second domestic COVID-19 vaccine

    The vaccine has already been rolled out to key groups at higher risk of exposure to coronavirus but Saturday's approval allows for its use on the general public.

    467 days ago
  • FILE: People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus outside a hospital in Beijing, China, on 5 January 2021. Picture: AFP

    Partial lockdown in Beijing over COVID-19 outbreak

    Seven cases were reported in the city on Wednesday, including six in southern Daxing district.

    484 days ago
  • FILE: Former US President Donald Trump visits his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on 3 November 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Trump bans US investment in Chinese firms that help military

    The executive order said the Chinese government obliges private firms to support these activities and through capital markets "exploits United States investors to finance the development and modernization of its military."

    552 days ago
  • FILE: A health worker takes a swab from a resident to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus as part of a mass testing program following a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on 13 October 2020. Picture: AFP

    Beijing bars more foreign arrivals for fear of virus resurgence

    COVID-19 first emerged in central China late last year, but Beijing has largely brought its outbreak under control through tight travel restrictions and stringent health measures for anyone entering the country.

    559 days ago
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