As China and its neighbors welcome the Year of the Rabbit and Lunar New Year, many markets in East Asia will be closed part or all of next week for the lunar holiday as China braces for the busiest travel period of the year.
BEIJING The number of Covid-19 patients needing critical care in China’s hospitals has peaked, health authorities said on Thursday (Jan 19), as millions travelled across the country for long-awaited reunions with families, raising fears of fresh outbreaks. There has been widespread scepticism over China’s official Covid-19 data since it abruptly axed anti-virus controls last month that had shielded China’s.
By Bernard Orr and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese drugmakers rushed to make anti-fever medicines and other treatments for COVID-19 on.
Chinese drugmakers rushed to make anti-fever medicines and other treatments for COVID-19 on Thursday, after President Xi Jinping said he was worried about an influx of holiday travellers to rural