by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Pandemic
The country had 1.41175 billion people at at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Men also continued to outnumber women by 722.06 million to 689.69 million, the bureau said, a result of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 15, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Strict lockdowns, quarantines and compulsory mass testing prompted abrupt closures of manufacturing facilities and businesses in major hubs — like Zhengzhou, home of the world’s biggest iPhone factory — and sent reverberations across the global supply chain China’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 14, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year The peak of China’s Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control Some 900 million...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 8, 2023 | Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
Boxes of Paxlovid are changing hands for as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,313.15), more than 20 times the original price of 2,300 yuan, according to local media reports and social media posts. Beijing has been largely resistant to Western vaccines, but has greenlighted...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 5, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
“The China CDC analysis showed a predominance of Omicron lineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired infections. BA.5.2 and BF.7 together accounted for 97.5 per cent of all local infections per genomic sequencing.” Geneva: The World Health Organization on...
