In its latest weekly update, the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the nation's current wave of COVID-19 infections is nearing an end.

China says Covid cases and deaths 'trending downwards'

China's Wuhan Virus tragedy is worsening. The country recorded 13,000 deaths in the last 7 days. China's top epidemiologist says 80% of the country may have been infected. Molly Gambhir reports.

Gravitas | Wuhan Virus: China's death toll rises

China's Wuhan Virus wave could be worse than expected. A new projection has revised figures for the number of people that could die. Molly Gambhir reports.

Gravitas: 'Millions could die' report revises projections for China's wave

As the lunar new year festival approaches, China has announced an internet censorship crackdown to ensure that there are no "gloomy sentiments" caused by pandemic rumours.

Internet censorship crackdown, Jinping's concerns and Lee's optimism, here's how Covid is faring in China

Days after Hollywood turned up to celebrate their best work of 2022 at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, several celebrities tested positive for COVID-19. Stars like Collin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Pfeiffer announced they had contracted the virus soon after attending the awards.

Several stars test positive for COVID-19 days after attending 2023 Golden Globe awards

China's economy slowed sharply in 2022, with the gross domestic product (GDP) growth registering its worst in nearly half a century, pressuring policymakers to provide more stimulus to boost the economy this year.

Hit by Covid restrictions, China's economy grew just 3% in 2022

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Tuesday rescinded the COVID-19 mandate bill that, as per the Pentagon, had led to the discharge of over 8,000 military personnel for refusal to comply.

Pentagon scraps Covid vaccine mandate that led to the discharge of more than 8,000 army personnel

China's ongoing struggle to combat the latest surge in Covid cases was seen in visuals that went viral on social media. In a video posted on Twitter, cited to be of December 28, people can be seen being treated outside a hospital said to be located in Shanghai, China's most populous urban area.

WATCH | China's Covid surge forces Shanghai hospital to treat patients outside

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Sunday (January 1) said Taiwan was ready to provide "necessary assistance" to China to help it deal with the fresh wave of Covid infections.

Taiwan offers help to China in tackling fresh spate of Covid-19 infections

Japan on Wednesday (December 28) reported a record number of deaths. The nation recorded 415 COVID-19-related deaths, which is its highest-ever count for a single day.

Japan reports its highest-ever tally of Covid related deaths, 415 in one day

A WION exclusive report by Rahesha Sehgal: - It's 2022 and the world is keen to emerge out of the pandemic but there are big challenges lined up. - There are new dimensions, new paradigms. We ask are we really out of the pandemic? - What are the collateral damages of the Covid-19 pandemic and when will we completely break free.

Year Ender 2022: Life after Covid

New research on the Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus has suggested the pathogen could be changing how it attacks the human body, shifting from infecting respiratory systems to increasingly targeting the brain.

Study: Omicron BA.5 subvariant may cause more damage

In contrast to the precautionary steps many nations, including the United States, have taken, Britain on Thursday said it has no plans to impose any kind of curbs on travellers from China.

UK, Australia have no plans to impose Covid restrictions on travellers from China

Hospitals across China have been overwhelmed by an explosion of Covid cases following Beijing's decision to lift strict rules. Watch this video to know more.

China's Covid surge triggers global alarm

Japan on Wednesday recorded 415 Covid deaths, the highest-ever count for a single day, health ministry data showed.

Japan records 415 new Covid deaths: Data

Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains, with China’s two biggest cities moving closer to living with COVID-19.

Residents in Beijing, Shanghai back to work as China eases into living with Covid

The United States government is contemplating imposing new measures on travellers from China to the country. As per a Reuters report citing US officials, this is due to concerns over Beijing's "lack of transparent data".

COVID-19 | After Japan, India and Malaysia, now US mulls stricter rules for travellers from China

What image does the name 'woolly mammoth' bring to your mind? Huge, majestic creatures with giant tusks walking an Earth yet untouched by modern humans. They last walked that walk a million years back and since then the majestic animals have lain silent and mostly undisturbed in their permafrost graves.

Russian researchers attempt to 're-awaken' ancient viruses that killed giant woolly mammoths

Hospitals and funeral homes in China on Wednesday faced intense pressure as the surge in the nation's COVID-19 cases and the dearth of resources hit the nation of 1.

China’s funeral homes, hospitals overwhelmed even as official Covid figures remain low

Famous German virologist Christian Drosten believes the coronavirus pandemic has ended and Covid-19 is now an endemic disease.

WION Fineprint: Top German virologist says it is the end of pandemic

China's rising number of COVID-19 cases has sparked the worry that the surge might unleash a new mutant variant of the deadly virus into the world. As per Dr Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University, China's large population has limited immunity, which "seems to be the setting in which we may see an explosion of a new variant.

China a 'fertile breeding ground' for a potentially dangerous Covid mutation: Experts

Almost half a million people in the Chinese city of Qingdao are being infected by Covid-19 every day, said a senior health official. Bo Tao, the municipal health chief reportedly said that the Chinese coastal city with a population of around 10 million people was seeing "between 490,000 and 530,000" new Covid cases a day and that it was "in a period of rapid transmission ahead of an approaching peak".

Chinese health official says half a million people in Qingdao infected with Covid daily; censored

China's National Health Commission will no longer be publishing daily data on COVID-19 case figures for the country. The health agency, which as per Reuters has been publishing the numbers for the past three years, has said that starting Sunday, it won't release such data.

China’s top health body says it will no longer publish daily Covid infection numbers

China on Thursday (December 22) announced that it is making arrangements for German expatriates to receive the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This comes after Germany said that it has sent a batch of mRNA vaccines to China.

China accepts Germany's mRNA COVID vaccines as cases spike, distributes free fever, cold medicines

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