Partial lockdown in Beijing as UK virus variant detected
1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing on Wednesday as two COVID-19 cases linked to a new UK virus variant were found in the Chinese capital.
Jan 20, 2021
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1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing on Wednesday as two COVID-19 cases linked to a new UK virus variant were found in the Chinese capital.
Jan 20, 2021
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Transport services were cut off to a city of 11 million people near Beijing on Thursday as local officials were reprimanded for a COVID-19 outbreak that pushed China's new infections to the highest single-day tally since ...
Jan 7, 2021
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Temperature checks, queues for tests and inspections at airports—Chinese authorities have stepped up health checks to snuff out the threat of a coronavirus resurgence.
Dec 28, 2020
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A recent coronavirus outbreak in Beijing sowed fears of a second wave of infections in China, but officials appear to have beat back the disease with a new targeted strategy.
Jul 9, 2020
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Beijing has contained transmission of a new coronavirus outbreak and will lift travel restrictions on most residents at midnight, city authorities said Friday, weeks after a new wave of infections broke out in the Chinese ...
Jul 3, 2020
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China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital to contain a fresh coronavirus cluster on Sunday, as authorities warned the outbreak was still "severe and complicated."
Jun 28, 2020
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Beijing has partially lifted a weeks-long lockdown imposed in the Chinese capital to head off a feared second wave of coronavirus infections after three million samples were taken in two weeks, officials said.
Jun 26, 2020
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On June 11, Beijing reported its first new coronavirus case in nearly two months. Over the next two days, the city government swung into action, sealing off certain neighbourhoods and closing Xinfadi, the vast wholesale market ...
Jun 25, 2020
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China's capital reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday after a mass testing effort that has collected more than two million samples in a race to contain a new outbreak.
Jun 21, 2020
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China has released genome data for the coronavirus found in a new outbreak in Beijing, which state experts suggest share similarities to European strains, as the number of cases neared 200 on Friday.
Jun 19, 2020
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