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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 · Dec 12, 2022

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 · Dec 12, 2022

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 · Dec 10, 2022

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 · Dec 4, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Dec 1, 2022

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 - UK · Nov 28, 2022

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

The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Nov 27, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

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.

Daily Mirror · Nov 8, 2022