To conserve resources for the severely ill, the government is urging residents not to seek help unless necessary. But the…
Covid
Many of the poorest countries will continue to get free Covid shots, but global demand for them has plummeted, driving…
Los Angeles County may bring back a mask mandate if hospitalizations continue to increase.
Residents in the capital city buy up at-home tests and fever medication following the government’s decision to ease its “zero…
Strict “zero Covid” curbs have been smothering growth. After easing them, Beijing faces the twin challenges of rising caseloads and…
Hospitalizations and Covid cases have increased sharply in Los Angeles since Thanksgiving. But fear — and masks — are missing…
Xi Jinping may be the most powerful autocrat in the world, but he was forced this week to pirouette to…
The Chinese government ordered officials to cut back on mass testing and hair-trigger regional lockdowns, in a pivot from stringent…
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a…
The city’s Pandemic Response Lab, which provided mass testing, is shutting down due in part to the prevalence of at-home…