Case numbers have been growing since last week in Shanghai, where staff shortages are causing delays in delivery services.
December 23, 2022Protests triggered by a deadly apartment fire in the far west of the country last week took place on Sunday.
November 28, 2022The protests erupted after 10 people died and nine others were injured in an apartment fire in Urumqi.
November 27, 2022Several schools dotted throughout the city have suspended in-person classes as the fear of infection spread grows, according to parents and social media posts.
October 13, 2022Shanghai reported no local COVID-19 infections on Monday and Tuesday, the municipal health commission said.
June 29, 2022The new deaths took the city's toll to 10 during this outbreak, with more than 300,000 infections since March.
April 21, 2022Apart from Shanghai, 14 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new local cases of the virus, including 195 in the northeastern province of Jilin.
April 16, 2022Reeling under a massive Covid-19 outbreak of the BA.2 variant, what is happening in the city of 26 million people which accounts for 3-5 per cent of China’s GDP according to some estimates, is an illustration of the overreach of an absolutist state.
April 14, 2022Residents are confined to their homes, banned from leaving for even essential reasons such as grocery shopping. Nearly 20,000 cases were reported on Thursday in China's biggest city, another near-record high.
April 7, 2022In affected areas, residents will be required to stay indoors, while non-contact delivery of necessities will be allowed.
March 31, 2022Around 17,000 testing personnel from Shanghai and the surrounding provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang had set up 6,300 test sites in these areas, Wu said.
March 29, 2022During the seven-day national holiday from January 31, Shanghai held approximately 500 cultural and tourism activities focused on intangible cultural heritages, said the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, reports Xinhua news agency.
February 7, 2022According to data released by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, the city's export volume totalled 5.74 trillion yuan last year, up 15.2 per cent on a yearly basis, reports Xinhua news agency.
January 31, 2022A couple of days ago, minister of Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri has announced that it is planned that Air India, Spicejet and Bluedart will airlift another 220 tonnes of critical medical cargo in the next three days.
April 27, 2020The fire department said it had confirmed that jet fuel was the substance dropped on the school's playground while students were at recess and that 70 firefighters were on the scene treating the injured.
January 15, 2020Claiborne will also be fined $40,000.
July 10, 2019Zhu surrendered before police accompanied by his parents on February 1 after realising he could no longer hide the truth as the couple was asked to attend the father-in-law's birthday dinner that evening, the report said.
July 5, 2019