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In April 2022, amidst the largest outbreak in China since early 2020 driven by the Omicron variant, China continued to uphold its zero-COVID policy, [60] although a reduction was made to quarantine periods and self-testing kits were made more widely available. [61] Notably, the city of Shanghai was placed in a strict city-wide lockdown. [62] [60]
A series of protests in mainland China against COVID-19 lockdowns began in November 2022. On 7 December 2022, China's National Health Commission in a 10-point announcement stipulated that negative COVID-19 tests would no longer be required, apart from vulnerable areas such as nurseries, elderly care facilities and schools. [13]
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
The government in China’s far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including physically locking residents in homes, imposing quarantines of ...
A COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Shanghai, China began on February 28, 2022, [1] and ended on August 7, 2022. [2] The outbreak was caused by the Omicron variant and became the most widespread in Shanghai since the pandemic began two years prior. [7]
China is reinstating measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus in several cities amid a spike in infections. Thus far, China has shut down an industrial city, urged residents not to leave ...
The head of the World Health Organization said China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it ...
Place Province Start date End date City level Population Cases Deaths Recoveries Active Wuhan: Hubei: 2020-01-23 2020-04-08 [1] [2] [3]: Sub-provincial: 11,081,000