Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, Seoulbased NK News reported.

Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak in January 2020, Covid has devastated the planet, killing millions and plunging the global economy into turmoil.

After three years of lockdowns, testing, economic hardship and isolation, many of China's Generation Z had found a new political voice, repudiating their stereotypes as either nationalist keyboard warriors or apolitical loafers.

China lifts quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.

China lifts quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.

As per the claim, the government has announced the closure of schools and colleges for the next 15 days. The PIB fact-checker has debunked this claim and clarified that the announcement as bogus.

A video of the couple enjoying a meal together is going viral on China's social media platform.

Hardik Pandya and Natasa Stankovic got engaged on January 1, 2020, on a cruise before tying the knot during the COVID-19 lockdown

Thousands gathered in central Wuhan on Saturday night to count down to the start of what many hoped would be a much better year after a "tough" 2022 filled with lockdowns and in December a major new outbreak of the coronavirus.

New Year's Eve in China prompted an outpouring of reflection online, some of it critical, about the strict zero-COVID policy the country adhered to for almost three years.

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Towards the end of the video, the familiar sounds of people clapping and cheering were replaced by the faint rustling of leaves and branches.

Amid rising fear of a new Covid wave in India, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that he will hold a meeting with health ministers of states and Union territories on Friday.

Amid anti-government views and posts in the wake of the massive public protests across the country over Covid lockdowns and a fresh outbreak, China released new guidelines on the censorship of online comments and 'likes'.

Months after Shanghai endured a brutal lockdown to stop the spread of Covid, the virus is starting to make its way virtually unchecked through the megacitys 25 million population.

Between 1.3 and 2.1 million lives could be at risk if China lifts its zero-COVID policy given low vaccination and booster rates as well as a lack of hybrid immunity, according to London-based global health intelligence and analytics firm.

Officials and global health experts outside China are anxiously watching a COVID-19 surge there, worried a nation of 1.4 billion people is inadequately vaccinated and may not have the healthcare tools.

Xiaomi has reportedly started to lay off workers in its smartphone and internet services business. According to a report, the company is reducing its workforce by 15 percent, and thousands of workers who were hired in December last year could be affected by the layoffs.

Uganda on Saturday lifted a two-month lockdown on two districts at the epicentre of the country's Ebola epidemic, amid cautious hope that the outbreak could end soon.

China put a priority on protecting rural communities from COVID-19 on Friday as millions of city-dwellers planned holidays for the first time in years after Beijing abandoned its stringent system of lockdowns and travel curbs.

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The baby died during the first COVID lockdown in June 2020, when its cot was placed on an uneven cardboard box in the outhouse.

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities this week.

Foxconn has ended a month's long "closed loop" at its biggest iPhone assembly plant in central China. The decision of the Taiwanese tech firm comes after the country loosened its stringent COVID-19 regulations. The company's facility in central Zhengzhou was in effective lockdown for 56 days after cases were detected in October.