Trump’s wishful thinking won’t stop coronavirus impact (Opinion)
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump’s wishful thinking won’t stop coronavirus impact (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. CNN — President Donald Trump keeps telling us not to worry, that the fast-spreading COVID-19, the coronavirus, is “going to go away,” soon, probably by “April,” and that a vaccine is “close.” The experts, including federally-employed top scientists, say he’s wrong on all these counts. Even the movie industry, which has become increasingly reliant on audiences in the world’s most populous nation, will feel the pummeling from the closure of 70,000 theaters in China. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the President’s $2.5 billion funding request to fight the virus is “long overdue and completely inadequate.” She vowed that the House provide more than Trump requested, and “advance a strong, strategic funding package,” commensurate with the challenge. But it’s not out of the question that coronavirus could become Trump’s “black swan,” the low-probability, high-impact event that changes everything, even his prospects for reelection.

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China enters new phase of COVID response
2 years ago

China enters new phase of COVID response

China Daily  

BEIJING -- From Jan 8, China starts managing COVID-19 with measures designed for combating Class B infectious diseases, instead of Class A infectious diseases. Confronted with epidemic uncertainties, China has always been putting people's lives and health first, adapting its COVID response in light of the evolving situation. The fast-changing features of the virus and the complicated evolution of epidemic …

China enters new phase of COVID response
2 years ago

China enters new phase of COVID response

China Daily  

From Sunday, China starts managing COVID-19 with measures designed for combating Class B infectious diseases, instead of Class A infectious diseases. Confronted with epidemic uncertainties, China has always been putting people's lives and health first, adapting its COVID response in light of the evolving situation. The fast-changing features of the virus and the complicated evolution of epidemic response posed serious …

China enters new phase of COVID response
2 years ago

China enters new phase of COVID response

China Daily  

BEIJING -- From Jan 8, China starts managing COVID-19 with measures designed for combating Class B infectious diseases, instead of Class A infectious diseases. Confronted with epidemic uncertainties, China has always been putting people's lives and health first, adapting its COVID response in light of the evolving situation. The fast-changing features of the virus and the complicated evolution of epidemic …

Niesters: Illusion to think you can stop coronavirus
2 years ago

Niesters: Illusion to think you can stop coronavirus

NL Times  

Whether it is right for the government to offer travelers from China only a voluntary self-test for the coronavirus, virologist Bert Niesters does not know. The virologist explained that he is sometimes shocked at the number of people infected on flights from China. That is why, according to Niesters, it is important for China to continue testing for the coronavirus …

China economy again on bumpy road as Covid infection surge detracts recovery
2 years ago

China economy again on bumpy road as Covid infection surge detracts recovery

India TV News  

With resurge of Covid cases, China economy once again is staring at downfall trend. "If the virus were highly infectious and everyone's life were in danger, the government wouldn't let go.” On Tuesday, the government announced it would relax restrictions on travel out of China and resume issuing passports for tourist travel for the first time in nearly three years. …

DC Edit | China endangering world again
2 years ago

DC Edit | China endangering world again

Deccan Chronicle  

China’s healthcare system is buckling under the strain of its latest and outlandish decision of taking down all Covid controls so rapidly that the country is endangering the world all over again. From late 2019 in Wuhan where the pathogen may have jumped species to spread panic over the coronavirus to the close of 2022, China took several decisions that …

COVID-19 China update: Difficult months ahead as 'coronavirus' cases spiral | KNOW WHY
2 years ago

COVID-19 China update: Difficult months ahead as 'coronavirus' cases spiral | KNOW WHY

India TV News  

China COVID-19 cases : Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading through the vast country. “How well do they perform this particular catch up effort might determine some of the outcome.” Hospital conditions in China: Around Baoding and Langfang, hospitals have run out of intensive care beds and staff as severe …

In our 'profound interest' that China reins in latest surge in coronavirus infections: Antony Blinken
2 years ago

In our 'profound interest' that China reins in latest surge in coronavirus infections: Antony Blinken

The Hindu  

It is in America's "profound interest" that China reins in the recent surge in coronavirus infections, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, asserting that there are major implications if the world's second-largest economy remained shut down due to the virus. When asked about the latest surge in COVID-19 cases in China, Mr. Blinken said the U.S. wants to …

‘A very hard road ahead’ for China as COVID-19 cases spiral
2 years ago

‘A very hard road ahead’ for China as COVID-19 cases spiral

Associated Press  

BAZHOU, China — Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus is now spreading through the vast country. The National Health Commission said China had 10 intensive care beds for every 100,000 people on Dec. 9, a total of 138,000 beds, up from 4 for every 100,000 people on Nov. 22. Even taken at face value, …

Prepare, don't panic, in the face of covid resurgence in China
2 years ago

Prepare, don't panic, in the face of covid resurgence in China

Live Mint  

As a fresh wave of covid infections sweeps across China, after the authorities abruptly changed tack from their three-year-long Zero Covid strategy, there is widespread concern that the world is heading for Pandemic Redux, making the world pay a heavy toll in terms of lives and lost economic output. A PLI-type scheme for 'atmanirbhar' vaccine industry Cement investors see Q3 …

China’s Covid-19 spike is a worry
2 years ago

China’s Covid-19 spike is a worry

Hindustan Times  

China is now in the grip of its worst Covid-19 outbreak, having been forced to dismantle its restrictive virus control measures when near-unprecedented protests erupted against the Xi Jinping administration. While other countries completed the first round of mass vaccinations within 2021, nearly half of those above the age of 80 in China – the most vulnerable to Covid-19 -- …

Conditions and capacity for strong recovery
2 years ago

Conditions and capacity for strong recovery

China Daily  

An employee works on the production line of an elevator component manufacturer in Haian, Jiangsu province. GU HUAXIA/FOR CHINA DAILY A senior economic official said the optimized response China has adopted to deal with COVID-19 is expected to have a "J-curve effect" on the economy that will help it gain strong growth momentum in 2023. "We have the confidence, conditions, …

China rushes to build hospital beds, US says covid situation in China a concern
2 years ago

China rushes to build hospital beds, US says covid situation in China a concern

Live Mint  

China rushed to install hospital beds across cities and build fever screening clinics amid a surge in covid cases in the country. We’ve seen that over the course of many different permutations of this virus and certainly another reason why we are so focused on helping countries around the world address COVID, another reason why bringing this to a close …

China Covid toll concern for world given size of its GDP, economy: US State dep
2 years ago

China Covid toll concern for world given size of its GDP, economy: US State dep

Hindustan Times  

The United States hopes that China can address the current COVID-19 outbreak as the toll of the virus is a global concern due to the size of the Chinese economy, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Monday. "The toll of the virus is of concern to the rest of the world given the size of China's GDP, given the …

China eases some controls but gives no sign when ‘zero COVID’ might end
2 years, 1 month ago

China eases some controls but gives no sign when ‘zero COVID’ might end

LA Times  

Residents in Beijing line up for coronavirus testing next to a wall slogan extolling the political philosophy of Chinese President Xi Jinping. … Restrictions could still tighten dynamically in lower-tier cities should hospitalizations surge.” The changes follow protests demanding an end to “zero COVID” but are in line with earlier Communist Party promises to reduce disruption by easing quarantine and …

‘Zero COVID’ is roiling China. But ending the policy may cause a massive health disaster
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Zero COVID’ is roiling China. But ending the policy may cause a massive health disaster

LA Times  

An epidemic control worker tests residents for coronavirus infection before they leave their lockdown area in Beijing on Nov. 30, 2022. The government relentlessly tracks its citizens, mandates constant testing, shutters workers inside factories and locks down entire cities under a plan that has come to be known as “zero COVID.” Now, with China’s economy in steep decline and protesters …

China anti-virus curbs spur fears of global economic impact
2 years, 1 month ago

China anti-virus curbs spur fears of global economic impact

Associated Press  

BEIJING — More than 253,000 coronavirus cases have been found in China in the past three weeks and the daily average is rising, the government said Tuesday, adding to pressure on officials who are trying to reduce economic damage by easing controls that confine millions of people to their homes. Global stock markets fell Monday as anxiety about China’s controls …

China consumer, factory activity down as virus controls rise
2 years, 1 month ago

China consumer, factory activity down as virus controls rise

Associated Press  

BEIJING — Chinese consumer spending contracted in October and factory activity weakened as anti-virus controls following a rise in infections weighed on the economy. The performance was even weaker than expected by forecasters who said activity would cool as Chinese anti-virus controls and interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks weighed on global activity. Chinese …

As leaders meet, Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ limits
2 years, 2 months ago

As leaders meet, Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ limits

Associated Press  

BEIJING — As China’s ruling Communist Party holds a congress this week, many Beijing residents are focused on an issue not on the formal agenda: Will the end of the meeting bring an easing of China’s at times draconian “zero-COVID” policies that are disrupting lives and the economy? The Communist Party’s newspaper, the People’s Daily, published a series of opinion …

Official: China’s economy reviving as anti-virus curbs ease
2 years, 7 months ago

Official: China’s economy reviving as anti-virus curbs ease

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China’s factory and consumer activity fell even more than expected in April under anti-virus controls, official data showed Monday, but a Cabinet official said the economy is reviving as anti-virus curbs ease and its commercial capital of Shanghai reopens. “The pace of recovery in consumption will accelerate as the impact of the epidemic is brought under control.” The …

The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots
2 years, 7 months ago

The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments. “That leaves a lot of us vulnerable.” Jha predicted that the next generation of vaccines, which are likely to be …

WHO says China’s zero-COVID strategy unsustainable
2 years, 7 months ago

WHO says China’s zero-COVID strategy unsustainable

Al Jazeera  

UN health agency officials say that any measure to tackle a coronavirus outbreak should show respect for human rights. China’s zero-COVID strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the head of the World Health Organization has said, in a rare public criticism by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the coronavirus. Draconian measures have trapped most of …

China steers economy through challenges
2 years, 8 months ago

China steers economy through challenges

China Daily  

Editor's note: The Chinese economy faces severe challenges because the wave of the COVID-19 infections could lower GDP growth. MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Some foreign media say China's economic growth target of about 5.5 percent is too high, and its economic prospects are unattainable. The"2022 White Paper on the Business Environment in China" and the "2022 Special Report on the State …

Column: The cost of China’s harsh ‘zero COVID’ policy? Human suffering and economic damage
2 years, 8 months ago

Column: The cost of China’s harsh ‘zero COVID’ policy? Human suffering and economic damage

LA Times  

The stories from Shanghai, a city of 25 million entering its fourth week of COVID-19 lockdown, have been harrowing. The damage is impossible to estimate with any accuracy, but big enough that Premier Li Keqiang warned publicly last week that the economy faces “unexpected challenges and mounting downward pressures.” In Greater Shanghai, China’s economic capital, workers cannot reach their jobs. …

Disease and the cure: The Hindu Editorial on China’s zero COVID strategy
2 years, 8 months ago

Disease and the cure: The Hindu Editorial on China’s zero COVID strategy

The Hindu  

For the past two weeks, China has locked down Shanghai, its financial centre. The government has struggled to supply every household with daily necessities, with the supply chain paralysed by China’s stringent measures under which every COVID-19 case, even if asymptomatic, is confined in government-run quarantine facilities. After two successful “zero COVID” years that allowed for normalcy, an Omicron outbreak …

Coronavirus is no longer a top issue for Americans. That’s good news for Republicans
2 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus is no longer a top issue for Americans. That’s good news for Republicans

CNN  

CNN — This week was more of a normal week for news – something we haven’t had in a long time. The fact that the coronavirus pandemic, now in its third year, is no longer a top news story is where we begin this week’s statistical journey. Americans may be losing interest in Russian invasion of Ukraine Unlike the coronavirus …

China economy starts the year with a wobble
2 years, 11 months ago

China economy starts the year with a wobble

Live Mint  

BY JONATHAN CHENG | UPDATED JAN 30, 2022 12:54 AM EST Manufacturing and service sector surveys show retreat in January as latest Covid-19 outbreaks hit domestic demand The Chinese economy started the year on an uncertain footing, as Covid-19 flare-ups disrupted factory activity and consumer spending, according to a trio of manufacturing and service sector surveys released Sunday. China’s official …

China leads global cooperation efforts
2 years, 11 months ago

China leads global cooperation efforts

China Daily  

A worker transfers a shipment of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov 17. The volumes of donations and supplies of medical equipment, including safety kits and personal protection equipment, and vaccines, show China has kept all its promises to contribute to the global fight against the pandemic. Apart from fulfilling its …

China’s zero-Covid strategy stretched to breaking point ahead of winter Olympics
3 years ago

China’s zero-Covid strategy stretched to breaking point ahead of winter Olympics

The Telegraph  

Basic food supplies and patience are running low in Xi’an after two weeks of lockdown. Omicron and China’s inadequate vaccine against the fast-spreading variant risks pushing the country’s zero-Covid strategy to breaking point, as it runs out of time to stamp out cases ahead of athletes arriving for the Winter Olympics next month. Xi has not left China in two …

China’s zero-Covid policy risks battering global economy, warns Mark Carney
3 years, 1 month ago

China’s zero-Covid policy risks battering global economy, warns Mark Carney

The Telegraph  

China's zero-Covid strategy is at risk of derailing the global economy and driving up inflation, the former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned amid fears of mass factory closures in the run-up to Christmas. Mr Carney told an LBC podcast that China will have to “evolve or pivot” towards managing the disease through vaccinations, adding: “There are real …

Xi Focus: The Chinese way of fighting coronavirus for safety, growth
3 years, 3 months ago

Xi Focus: The Chinese way of fighting coronavirus for safety, growth

China Daily  

Deliveryman Li Yang passes a package to a resident at a residential community in Bayan county of Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Sept 26, 2021. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, the country has walked a fine line between virus control and economic reopening, saved lives at all costs, …

China’s economy is being rattled by the Delta variant and supply chain woes
3 years, 4 months ago

China’s economy is being rattled by the Delta variant and supply chain woes

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — China’s economy stalled this month as the country tried to stamp out a surge in coronavirus cases and contended with the ongoing shipping crisis. China’s economy initially coped with the pandemic much better than many of its peers, recording growth last year as others shrank. “The latest surveys suggest that China’s economy contracted last month …

China growth forecasts slashed as Delta variant spreads across the country
3 years, 4 months ago

China growth forecasts slashed as Delta variant spreads across the country

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — China’s worst coronavirus outbreak in a year has authorities taking dramatic measures to stamp out new infections. “With the virus spreading to many of China’s provinces and local governments reacting swiftly to control the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, we have begun to see softening in national aggregate data,” the analysts said in …

Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy
3 years, 5 months ago

Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the highly contagious variant pushes leaders in the …

Coronavirus: Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus: Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy

India Today  

The delta variant is challenging China's costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the country need a less disruptive approach. That "zero tolerance" strategy of quarantining every case and trying to block new infections from abroad helped to contain last year's outbreak and has kept China largely …

Sharing opportunities and growth
3 years, 6 months ago

Sharing opportunities and growth

China Daily  

Meeting people in a local factory in Beijing during field studies in 1975. In the past eight years alone, China-Arab relations have been at their "best stage of development" he says, with politics, economics, technology and other fields recording significant achievements－total trade volume between the two sides hit $240 billion last year, with Arab countries becoming China's sixth-largest trading partner. …

Sharing opportunities and growth
3 years, 6 months ago

Sharing opportunities and growth

China Daily  

Meeting people in a local factory in Beijing during field studies in 1975. In the past eight years alone, China-Arab relations have been at their "best stage of development" he says, with politics, economics, technology and other fields recording significant achievements－total trade volume between the two sides hit $240 billion last year, with Arab countries becoming China's sixth-largest trading partner. …

China's COVID-19 Vaccine Goes Global
3 years, 6 months ago

China's COVID-19 Vaccine Goes Global

The Diplomat  

China’s Xi Jinping has openly described his country’s coronavirus vaccine development and deployment efforts as a “global public good.” In May, the World Health Organization granted emergency approval for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned Sinopharm, a move that bolstered China’s goal of playing an active role in global inoculations. The Sinopharm vaccine is the first non-Western COVID-19 jab …

Trump says India devastated by Covid-19, China must pay for its spread
3 years, 6 months ago

Trump says India devastated by Covid-19, China must pay for its spread

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump, the former US president, has said India has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and called for China to pay $10 trillion to the United States for allegedly being responsible for the spread of Covid-19 across the world. Trump has been blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic and said that Sars-Cov-2, which causes the coronavirus disease, leaked from …

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness
3 years, 7 months ago

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness

LA Times  

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with patients and medical workers at a hospital in Wuhan, the first place hit hard by the novel coronavirus of unknown origins. It wasn’t so much what he did — ordering U.S. intelligence agencies to take a new look at the origins of COVID-19, including whether the coronavirus that causes the disease escaped accidentally from …

China counters Biden’s Covid origins Wuhan lab probe … by calling for a US lab probe
3 years, 7 months ago

China counters Biden’s Covid origins Wuhan lab probe … by calling for a US lab probe

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — US President Joe Biden’s call for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus feels like déjà vu in Beijing. “What secrets are hidden in the suspicion-shrouded Fort Detrick and the over 200 US bio-labs all over the world?” Zhao said, adding that the US “owes an explanation to the world.” The Fort Detrick theory …

Trade is giving China’s economic recovery a boost
3 years, 8 months ago

Trade is giving China’s economic recovery a boost

CNN  

CNN Business — China’s economic recovery is continuing to gather steam. It’s a sign that demand within China is picking up as the country moves past the worst of the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. “The global reopening amid the vaccinations rollouts and improving global outlook should hold the external demand supportive, while the global supply-chain normalization could …

CNN Poll: One year into the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans say the worst has passed
3 years, 9 months ago

CNN Poll: One year into the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans say the worst has passed

CNN  

CNN — After a full year living under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, the American public finally sees a brighter future, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. As Biden prepares to stand before the country in a prime-time address marking the one-year anniversary of widespread lockdowns in the United States, most Americans say they have a …

Chinese President Xi Jinping warns against 'new Cold War' in Davos speech, calls for 'open world economy'
3 years, 11 months ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping warns against 'new Cold War' in Davos speech, calls for 'open world economy'

ABC  

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for "an open world economy" in an address to the World Economic Forum, saying that excellence rather than "wrestling" should be driving global prosperity. Key points: Mr Xi is urging nations to remove trade barriers to create fair competition He warns a new Cold War could start after "exclusion, threats and intimidation" He says …

Coronavirus casts a shadow over Chinese New Year for another year as cases rise
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus casts a shadow over Chinese New Year for another year as cases rise

ABC  

Tanya Tong has two weeks to weigh up whether to see her parents for the Chinese New Year, as a small but persistent resurgence of the virus creates déjà vu one year on from the COVID-19 outbreak, scuttling celebrations across the country. Key points: China is currently recording about 200 COVID-19 cases a day China is currently recording about 200 …

China was the only major economy to grow in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

China was the only major economy to grow in 2020

Daily Mail  

China's economy grew by 2.3 per cent in 2020, official figures revealed today, making the the country where the pandemic began the only major economy to grow at all last year while the rest of the world was ravaged by Covid-19. China's 2.3 per cent expansion was better than experts had predicted, while every other OECD country is expected to …

China’s latest potential foreign culprit of coronavirus? Auto parts packaging
4 years ago

China’s latest potential foreign culprit of coronavirus? Auto parts packaging

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — More than a year since the coronavirus pandemic began, while a surprising – and frustrating – number of points remain unclear, one thing is certain: the first major outbreak was in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Chinese experts disagree however, with Wu himself saying in November that “more and more evidence is showing that frozen …

Coronavirus | WHO warns virus crisis not over as vaccine rollout approaches
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus | WHO warns virus crisis not over as vaccine rollout approaches

The Hindu  

The World Health Organization has warned that vaccines will be no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis as nations gear up for a massive rollout to tackle surging infections. America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended “universal face mask use” indoors and Biden said he would scale down his January inauguration ceremony to mitigate the virus risk. …

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say coronavirus did not emerge in China
4 years, 1 month ago

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say coronavirus did not emerge in China

India Today  

The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first identified in a food market in December last year. China is pushing a narrative via state media that the virus existed abroad before it was discovered in the central …

Do China’s claims of coronavirus on frozen food stack up?
4 years, 1 month ago

Do China’s claims of coronavirus on frozen food stack up?

LA Times  

China has stirred controversy with claims that it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, including from Russia and Norway. Overseas complaints Trading partners, including the U.S., New Zealand, Canada and the EU, say they’re unclear on China’s methodology and have seen no solid evidence that their products carried the coronavirus. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian …

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