Mainland authorities have reported 67 new Covid-19 cases, 28 of them locally transmitted infections. According to the National Health Commission, Guangxi accounted for nearly half of the local cases with 13. There were 11 infections in Liaoning, two...

The mainland drug regulator on Saturday gave conditional approval to imports of Pfizer's Paxlovid Covid-19 pill, official media reported. The National Medical Products Administration said Paxlovid has obtained conditional approval for the treatment ...

For a country determined to keep out the virus that first emerged within its borders, bringing in more than 15,000 people from all corners of the world was a serious gamble. It appears to be working. One week into the 17-day event, China seems to be...

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said on Wednesday that five new Covid-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on February 8. Three of the cases were found among new airport arrivals, according to a notice on the Be...

Chinese scientists say they have developed a new coronavirus test that is as accurate as a PCR lab test but gives results within four minutes. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are widely considered the most accurate and sensitive for the virus ...

The commerce ministry on Tuesday hit out at a US decision to include more Chinese entities on a "unverified list", saying Washington should correct its "wrongdoings". The ministry said the United States should return to the track of cooperation and ...

The National Health Commission (NHC) has revealed that confirmed Covid-19 infections in the southwestern city of Baise have jumped for a third straight day. The city of 3.6 million in Guangxi on the border with Vietnam recorded 64 new confirmed loca...

The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the latest planned US arms sale to Taiwan, saying it seriously undermined China's security and sovereignty. China will take robust measures to uphold its own security interests, spokesman Zhao Lijian told a ...

Nearly four million residents of a city in southwest Guangxi have been put into lockdown because of a Covid outbreak. The National Health Commission (NHC) reported that 37 domestically transmitted infections had been confirmed in Baise on Sunday, up...

The head of the World Health Organization said on Saturday he met Premier Li Keqiang for talks on Covid-19, including on the stalled investigation into the pandemic's origins. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visiting Beijing for the...

President Xi Jinping on Friday night declared the 24th Olympic Winter Games open at the National Stadium in Beijing. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach also spoke at the opening ceremony, thanking those around the globe who he sai...

A total of 55 new Covid-19 infections were found among Olympic Games-related personnel on February 2, the chair of the Beijing 2022 medical expert panel said on Thursday, the highest daily tally so far. Twenty-nine cases were found among new airport...

Beijing kicked off its Winter Olympics torch relay early on Wednesday, with Chinese basketball great and Olympian Yao Ming among the first to carry the flame on a journey that will last just three days due to Covid-19 curbs. The relay will carry the...

The Covid-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range", despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior official at China's Olympics Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said on Tuesday. The Be...

President Xi Jinping has extended Lunar New Year greetings to all Chinese people. According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi sent his greetings to all Chinese people, including the people of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, during a reception in Beijing. He s...

Police in Macau said on Sunday that they'd arrested two men for alleged illegal gambling and money laundering, and it's emerged that one of them is the chief executive of Hong Kong-listed casino operator Macau Legend Development. "One of the men inv...

Beijing recorded its highest number of new Covid-19 cases for a year and a half on Sunday, as the city gears up to host the Winter Olympics in five days. China will hold the Games in a strict "closed-loop" bubble as part of its zero-Covid strategy o...

China Unicom said Friday there were no "justifiable grounds" for a US order that banned the company from operating in the country on national security concerns. The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday was the lates...

Beijing has limited the movement of people in more parts of the capital, even as it reported fewer Covid-19 cases on Thursday, in a bid to lower virus risk just over a week before the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing's Fengtai district s...

China is demanding the United States end “interference” in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next month, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington and its allies. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Foreign M...