German health minister expresses concern over new COVID variant

Germany’s health minister has expressed concern over a new COVID-19 subvariant linked to rising hospitalizations in the northeastern United States, adding that Berlin was watching the situation closely. As much of the world watches rising COVID cases in China, infectious disease experts are also concerned about the highly contagious Omicron XBB.1.5, which made up more […]

Corporate China grapples with supply crunch, lack of demand as COVID cases spread

China’s factory production and retail sales saw their worst readings in six months in November, before most COVID restrictions were lifted in early December. Retail sales fell 5.9% year on year amid broad-based weakness in the services sector, while automobile production shrank 9.9% from an 8.6% increase in October. logistic logjam Leading automobile chip maker, […]

COVID-19 cases in China hit new record high after weekend protests

China posted another record high of COVID-19 infections on Monday, following an extraordinary weekend of nationwide protests over restrictive coronavirus restrictions in scenes unprecedented since President Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago. In Shanghai, protesters and police clashed on Sunday after police took away a bus full of protesters, the BBC said, before […]