by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 31, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
“Manufacturing and consumption both declined as Covid situation brought relatively big impact to enterprises, personnel on duty and logistics,” the statistics bureau said in a statement accompanying the data release China’s abrupt reversal of its Covid Zero policy...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 31, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
The scenario echoes the pandemic’s early days, when China was criticized for not releasing key genetic data on the virus until weeks after news of the new illness became public. Keeping up with viral evolution has posed difficult challenges for drugmakers. For...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 30, 2022 | International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance
The jump in cases has fueled concern across the globe about the emergence of new Covid variants that could be more contagious, lethal, or both. That has prompted numerous countries to adopt mandatory testing and entry restrictions for travelers from China, which also...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 25, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Pandemic
“China has a population that is very large and there’s limited immunity. And that seems to be the setting in which we may see an explosion of a new variant,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. Could the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 25, 2022 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert from Peking University First Hospital, told the Global Times on Saturday that as the virus spread to the communities in Beijing, more elderly people and those with underlying diseases have been infected and that the capital city has...
