Researchers start to find clues on the trail of long Covid
Tens of millions of people across the world are thought to suffer from long Covid, but four years after the pandemic was declared this elusive condition still cannot be tested…
Investors’ route to post-Covid China is via Europe
Investors are getting more bang for their buck this year by buying European companies with a focus on China than buying Chinese companies themselves, a sign of the unevenness of…
China’s zero-Covid structures take on second lives
With China’s dropping of its “zero-Covid” policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing. Since Beijing suddenly abandoned its hardline virus…
US trade shifts on Covid and China tensions, but no ‘decoupling’ yet
US trade flows are realigning on the back of pandemic shocks and tensions with China, but efforts to reduce interdependence between the superpowers have not brought a swift decoupling. While…
China has optimized, readjusted Covid-19 policy Jan 21, 2023
Since January 8, 2023, the Chinese government has optimized and readjusted its Covid-19 policy. China has started to manage Covid-19 with measures against Class-B instead of the more serious Class-A…
China’s ‘great migration’ kicks-off under shadow of COVID
China on Saturday marked the first day of “chun yun”, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world’s largest annual migration of people, bracing for…
After Covid-19, Ebola lockdowns drive Ugandan workers into debt
Uganda motorbike taxi driver Charles Ssebale fears his vehicle could be repossessed at any moment, having failed to keep up with his loan repayments after the East African nation imposed…
China’s propaganda machine sputters in zero-Covid reversal
China’s state media is struggling and censors are working overtime as Beijing gropes for a coherent narrative in the wake of the sudden reversal of its hallmark zero-Covid policy. For…
The Covid saga
It was a nightmare that haunts many of us till today. The Covid pandemic that swept the country and whose lethal strikes snatched many of our friends and relatives. This…
UK insider dealing probes dipped since Covid-19
British authorities have searched five homes and arrested eight people in connection with insider-dealing investigations since March 2020, pointing to a lull in regulatory action at a time when widespread…
