Officials have continued to fight the spread of Covid with lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines, which has hit economic growth and caused major disruption to businesses

The building project will be completed in six months, renovating an existing hospital to have 3,009 isolation rooms and 3,250 beds, Caixin said

An annual survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and PwC China found only 55% of 307 companies are optimistic about the five-year business outlook.

A total of 70 million smartphones were shipped from China to sellers in the third quarter, down 11% from 78.9 million from same period last year, research firm Canalys said on Thursday

The recipient inhales a deep breath from the cup containing an aerosol of the vaccine and slowly exhales, the Straits Times said.

Some 28 cities were implementing varying degrees of lockdown measures, with over 200 million people affected in regions responsible for a quarter of national GDP at the start of this week

Cases have been rising in China, even in the Beijing, which has some of the strictest Covid barriers, despite the tough zero-Covid policy. Parts of Wuhan and Guangzhou have also been locked down

Mobility statistics on flights, the movement of containers at major ports, plus city passenger traffic all deteriorated in October, the latest data in China shows.

China exported 10.56 million masks to North Korea in September, up from just 210 in August, and 40,000 pairs of rubber gloves

Foxconn's Zhengzhou campus banned all dining at the plant this week and required workers to take their meals back to their dormitories

City awards $191-million contract to build quarantine centre on Fuxing Island, in the Huangpu River, while officials in Beijing step up checks and lock down compounds as cases rise

China's slowdown has hit the capacity of provinces to fund intrastructure projects and led many to shed staff, data from provincial governments shows