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Thousands celebrate the new year in Wuhan amidst China's COVID wave

Thousands gathered in central Wuhan on Saturday night to count down to the start of what many hoped would be a much better year after a "tough" 2022 filled with lockdowns and in December a major new outbreak of the coronavirus.

Reuters

Wuhan Covid whistleblower banned from writing as her phone tapped and movements watched

Fang Fang, 67, said she is feeling 'somewhat depressed' after facing pressure and restrictions from Chinese authorities over her reporting of coronavirus in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic

Daily Mirror

From zero-tolerance into the unknown – a visual guide to three years of Covid in China

In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virus

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Chinese struggle to ‘summon the courage’ to live with COVID-19

People in China have been told for years that COVID is deadly, leaving them struggling to cope with newfound openness.

Al Jazeera

China's loosened COVID-19 policies – following years of aggressive lockdowns and quarantines – have left the country vulnerable

After nearly three years of aiming to eliminate COVID-19 through mass lockdowns, robust contact tracing programs and international travel bans, the Chinese government has announced it is rolling back the “zero-COVID” policies that helped suppress the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The Chinese Communist Party announced these changes…

The Conversation

Businesses in China's Wuhan face fresh worries after Covid easing

WUHAN, China: Infections are delivering a fresh kick in the teeth for many small businesses in China's central city of Wuhan, despite the easing of most stringent curbs last week.

Bangkok Post

Businesses in China's Wuhan face fresh worries after COVID easing

Infections are delivering a fresh kick in the teeth for many small businesses in China's central city of Wuhan, despite the easing of most stringent curbs last week.

Reuters

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Man, 26, with cancer locked down in China apartment as mum faces 'horrendous' ordeal

Matty Read from Everton is facing a costly cancer fight while remaining under strict lockdown

Liverpool Echo

In China's Wuhan, a shadow of reserve and resentment even as COVID lockdowns ease

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities this week.

Reuters

China scrambles to recalibrate 'zero-COVID' policy

WUHAN, China/BEIJING -- The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping has rolled back some elements of its "zero-COVID" policy, as the slowing economy and public frustration with strict infection prevention measures stoke concerns within the government.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Was coronavirus a lab leak? A startling revelation about origin of Covid-19

NEW DELHI: A US-based scientist, Andrew Huff, who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan, has claimed that Covid-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility.

The Times of India

Scientist who worked for US-funded Wuhan lab makes terrifying claims about Covid's origin

"China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent"

Irish Mirror

China Reports 2 New COVID Deaths as Some Restrictions Eased

China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures. The National Health Commission said one death was reported each in the provinces of Shandong and Sichuan. No information was given about the ages…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

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First Thing: Shanghai protests over zero-Covid policy spark clashes

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan are also rocked by demonstrations as anger over restrictions builds. Plus: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow Arctic thawing?

The Guardian - AU

Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan see demonstrations as anger over Xi Jinping’s strict Covid policies builds, in a test for the Communist party

Tribune News Service

This nation was ready for COVID. Now it’s eyeing the next threat

Two weeks before China disclosed it was investigating a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan in late 2019 — what the world now knows as COVID-19 — South Korea’s top health officials gathered for a quarterly table-top exercise to plan their response to a theoretical health threat.

The Guardian - UK

Xi’s iron grip on his country is stopping the Covid U-turn it so desperately needs

As the rest of the world breaks free of the virus, China has doubled down on draconian measures

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Daily Mirror

Wuhan subway passenger covers body in huge plastic bag to eat banana amid Covid wave

The woman was seen sat between other passengers as she covered her entire upper body in the bag and proceeded to enjoy her snack in a clever way to avoid breaching Covid rules.

Reason

The Lab Leak Deception

Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck

Since its founding in 2007, the independently funded investigative organization ProPublica has exposed wrongdoing at all levels of government and shined a light on corporate misbehavior, collecting six Pulitzer Prizes in the process and securing a reputation for painstaking, accurate journalism.

Daily Mirror

China rolls out first inhalable Covid vaccine days after Wuhan goes into third lockdown

The first people are starting to receive the Covid vaccine, which is inhaled via the mouth from a vessel that looks like a takeaway coffee cup with a short mouthpiece, in China

Daily Mirror

Site of Covid outbreak Wuhan plunged into lockdown three years after first case

Wuhan in China - which was the site of the world's first Covid-19 outbreak in late 2019 - has reported around 20 to 25 new infections a day this week

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Climate crisis funds ‘not delivered’ to countries in grave need

With famine in Somalia almost inevitable, $100bn a year pledge criticised. Plus, China is locking down parts of Wuhan again

Reuters

Chinese cities double down on zero-COVID as outbreaks widen

Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are doubling down on COVID-19 curbs, sealing up buildings, locking down districts and throwing millions into distress in a scramble to halt widening outbreaks.

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