A year after China abruptly scrapped its notoriously stringent zero-COVID controls and amid a recent surge in respiratory illness cases, some Chinese citizens are starting to worry about a potential ...

A new COVID-19 variant sweeping through China has yet to make a sizable footprint in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. As of Tuesday, May 27, less than 20 cases of ...

In this Dec. 16, 2022, file photo, residents line up for COVID-19 tests at a booth in Shanghai, China. Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Braun Hardly anyone in China wants to talk about COVID-19 or the ...

A new, highly infectious COVID-19 strain that has led to a spike in hospitalizations in China has now been detected in the US, including cases in New York City, according to the Centers for Disease ...

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China abandoned its zero-COVID program in December 2022. Travel restrictions were lifted. Quarantines ended. The government stopped testing, stopped even collecting data related to COVID, and declared ...

China has responded after the World Health Organization (WHO) again urged it to disclose data that could shed more light on the origins of COVID-19, which killed over 7 million people worldwide.

Beijing has sensationally claimed that America — not China — is to blame for the Covid-19 pandemic. In a white paper released Wednesday, China's State Council Information Office suggested the virus ...

China could produce a “coronavirus bioweapon” as well as deploy robots that are controlled by devices implanted into human brains in future warfare against the United States, according to a ...

Zhang Zhan had already served a four-year prison sentence, after she posted accounts of the early spread of the coronavirus from the epicenter of Wuhan. The citizen journalist was first arrested in ...

Five years after COVID-19 began spreading in the Chinese city of Wuhan, cases of human metapneumovirus, which also causes respiratory infections, have risen in the country, particularly among children ...