Wall Street Journal has reported that it was Foxconn founder Terry Gou who pushed China to move away from its zero-Covid policy and loosen restrictions. Gou apparently warned Beijing that the strict stance of COVID-19 threatens its position as the world's second-largest economy in the global supply chain.

Foxconn's founder pushed China to ease COVID curbs?

After series of mass protests, COVID-19 curbs are being relaxed in few parts of China. Businesses were reopened and testing requirements were also eased.

China eases zero Covid curbs after mass protests

Let us take a look at stories generating interest across WION's social media channels. In today's video we cover TikTok banning tanning and sunburn videos, South Korean YouTuber harassed in Mumbai, Beijing reports 5,006 Covid cases in news.

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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said everyone in China should be allowed to protest and express themselves amid Beijing’s crackdown on COVID-19.

Canada's Trudeau expresses support for lockdown protesters in China

The Chinese economy is suffering increasing damage from tightened virus controls as Covid infections are spreading in almost every province. Watch full video to know more.

China's economic activity falls as Covid-19 cases surge to record

Dozens of people gathered in central Hong Kong and at a major university campus on Monday to protests against China's strict Covid-19 restrictions. The supporters also mourned the victims of a deadly fire in the mainland's northwest.

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’; other countries join in solidarity

China has reached a new record number on the fourth day after it recorded one death and 39,791 new Covid infections. China now has 307,802 confirmed cases as of November 26, despite the zero-Covid policy. The country is facing the rise in Covid cases.

China Covid: Country reports 39,791 new infections; rise despite zero-Covid policy

Beijing shut parks, shopping malls and museums on Tuesday as Covid cases continue to rise in the country. Mass testing has also resumed in several cities, raising fresh concerns over the economy.

Beijing shuts malls, museums and parks amid rising COVID-19 cases

The COVID-19 situation is easing around the world but not in China. Chaoyang, the largest district of China’s capital Beijing, urged people to stay home for the weekend and restricted intra-city travel as Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the city. Watch the full video to know more

China's COVID cases rise, Beijing under semi-lockdown

COVID-19 infections are on a rise in China as the country's top health officials begin easing some pandemic measures in a bit to provide some economic relief to the people

Chinese cities record new surge in COVID-19 cases

Guangzhou is now becoming China's latest COVID-19 epicentre and a Shanghai-style lockdown might just be coming next for it as well. Official data released Tuesday showed that the cases are surging not just in the global manufacturing hub, but also other Chinese cities.

With over 7,000 fresh cases, Guangzhou now becoming the Covid epicentre of China

China's health authority reported a jump in COVID-19 infections, climbing to 7,475 on November 7 from 5,496 the day before and the highest since May 1.

New COVID-19 cases climb to 7,000 in China

Neighbourhoods under strict lockdown. Thousands quarantined. Millions tested in mere days. Overseas arrivals locked up for weeks and sometimes months. China has followed variations of that formula for dealing with the coronavirus for more than a year, and a new outbreak suggests that they could be part of Chinese life for some time to come.

China returns to its strict Covid limits to fight a new outbreak

More than 11 million people in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang have been placed into a stringent lockdown after an outbreak of Covid-19.

China places 11 mn people under lockdown as Shijazhuang witnesses dramatic rise in Covid cases

Two major airports in northeastern China now require that the departing passengers should show a negative coronavirus test taken over the previous 72 hours before they can board their planes.

Two Chinese airports now require coronavirus test results to let you travel further

In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control. The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak only to be threatened by the police and accused of peddling rumors, had died of COVID-19.

No ‘negative’ news: How China censored the coronavirus

China has put one northern city in lockdown and launched citywide coronavirus testing in another, after two local infections involving workers at a port and trade zone respectively, authorities have said.

China coronavirus cases on Russia border spark lockdowns, tests

Chinese state media have cited the presence of the novel coronavirus on imported frozen food packaging, as well as scientific papers, claiming that the coronavirus was circulating in Europe earlier than previously believed, as evidence that China may not have been its origin.

With frozen food clampdown, China questions theory of coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan

GENEVA — On a cold weekend in mid-February, when the world still harbored false hope that the new coronavirus could be contained, a World Health Organization team arrived in Beijing to study the outbreak and investigate a critical question: How did the virus jump from animals to humans?

In hunt for virus source, WHO let China take charge