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International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A third of the global economy will be in recession this year, the IMF chief has said, and warned that…

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China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy Topics China | …

Macau reported 89 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the total to more than 900 infections since mid-June, as authorities in the world’s biggest gambling hub race to contain its…

China's much-touted dynamic zero COVID policy came under sharp criticism from the WHO which termed it unsustainable in view of the constantly changing behaviour of the coronavirus and called…

Millions of Beijing residents queued up for another round of COVID-19 tests on Sunday as China’s capital seeks to trace and isolate every infection to contain a small but stubborn outbreak –…

Mass testing of China's vast population could bring fresh misery to the economy, experts warned Friday, after Beijing vowed to regain control of the narrative around a zero-Covid policy that…

Defending his country’s stringently implemented zero-COVID policy amid a huge surge of coronavirus cases in Shanghai and other cities, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday said China’s…

The latest sign came Monday in an essay published by Zhang Wenhong, an infectious disease specialist who is part of Shanghai’s COVID-19 response team and known as China’s “Dr. Fauci” — after…