Tag: #Coronavirus

China’s quest for new ways to handle Omicron

Chen Qingqing, Zhao Yusha and Yu Xi April 02, 2022

China’s quest for new ways to handle Omicron

As the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to pose risks and concerns over the social and economic costs of the protracted epidemic grow, several major Chinese cities have embarked on a quest for an improved anti-epidemic approach that can both ensure dynamic zero-COVID targets and minimize disruptions to...More

China must insist on zero-COVID policy now and here is why

Hu Xijin November 09, 2021

China must insist on zero-COVID policy now and here is why

In recent days, there have been increasing voices on the internet that criticize China's strict implementation of pandemic prevention measures. Western media have collectively targeted China's zero-COVID-19 policy, slandering the sustainability of China's anti-pandemic approach. The complaints on the internet are more complicated. Many of them are about...More

China CDC experts suggest survey on cold-chain suppliers to Wuhan in WHO’s 2nd-phase probe on virus origins

Left Review Online September 09, 2021

China CDC experts suggest survey on cold-chain suppliers to Wuhan in WHO’s 2nd-phase probe on virus origins

Amid the consensus among worldwide scientists that the second phase of the study on coronavirus origins should be carried out in multiple places, officials and experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) suggested that the WHO should take cold chain as a key...More

US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Left Review Online September 09, 2021

US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Editor's Note: The 90-day investigation into COVID-19 origins that US President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to conduct has come to a farcical end. Now that the Biden administration hasn't got its desirable results from the report, what will be its next moves to make...More

Chinese firms warn of delay in oxygen shipments to India as orders piled up

GT staff reporters May 02, 2021

Chinese firms warn of delay in oxygen shipments to India as orders piled up

Chinese exporters of personal protective equipment (PPE) are seeing surging demand from India that has their factories working around the clock, as the South Asian country reels from shortages of medical oxygen and other epidemic-related devices amid a devastating second wave of the coronavirus. However, even as they...More

Top-level Chinese scientists call on WHO to dispatch experts to more countries on studies of coronavirus origins

Left Review Online February 07, 2021

Top-level Chinese scientists call on WHO to dispatch experts to more countries on studies of coronavirus origins

While the team of 13 WHO experts are halfway through their highly anticipated field visits to Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province, a number of predominant Chinese epidemiologists - including those close to the National Health Commission and Chinese CDC, jointly called for similar field studies on...More

Wuhan offers a glimpse of hope for Milan, New York

Left Review Online April 13, 2020

Wuhan offers a glimpse of hope for Milan, New York

After 76 days in strict lockdown, Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, which was the first to bear the brunt of what has become a global pandemic, reopened to the outside world on Wednesday morning. While much work remains to be done to restart the economy and prevent...More

War or Peace

Premal Kumar Khanal April 10, 2020

War or Peace

In this moment of CORONA, terrorizing the globe Tell either you want war or peace, at this juncture If you want and desire peace Abandon the terror now Stop the manufacture and sale of arms and ammunition in the world Call back all the forces that are currently...More

US government’s China bashing a cover-up for virus failures

Shi Tian March 27, 2020

US government’s China bashing a cover-up for virus failures

The New York-based Daily Beast newspaper reported Saturday that the White House is "launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies," asking officials to stick closely to talking points which focus on accusing China of "creating a global pandemic." The strong ideological bias of some US politicians and...More

G20 to inject hope to world

Left Review Online March 26, 2020

G20 to inject hope to world

After weeks of chaotic responses by individual countries to the global coronavirus pandemic marked by various restrictions on travel and trade and even finger-pointing, major global powers are finally pushing for coordinated efforts to combat the common threat, injecting a desperately needed sense of direction and hope for...More

Trump’s promise not to use ‘Chinese virus’ unlikely to stop US’ ethnic slander

Xin Qiang March 26, 2020

Trump’s promise not to use ‘Chinese virus’ unlikely to stop US’ ethnic slander

A few days after US President Donald Trump first dropped his verbal bomb by using the term "Chinese virus" to refer to the novel coronavirus, he said on Tuesday that he would stop associating the virus with China. While he said he did not regret using the term,...More