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Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak to delay launch of China's 3rd aircraft carrier
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Shanghai [China], April 17 (ANI): With the severe lockdown measures in place in China's economic hub of Shanghai, the defence industry of the country might face a setback with a delay in the launch of China's third aircraft carrier, media reports said.
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Shanghai residents scream from windows as China's COVID lockdown prevents
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 12 (ANI): Horrifying videos have emerged showing Shanghai residents screaming from their windows over strict COVID lockdown measures that prevent them from leaving home even for food.
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Shanghai's stringent COVID lockdown puts megacity out of food
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 12 (ANI): As Shanghai's COVID-19 lockdown leaves residents struggling to access essentials, residents of the mega Chinese city are almost out of food and they are reeling under an acute food crisis.
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China's strict Zero-COVID policy causes chaos
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 11 (ANI): The other shoe has dropped for China, as it battles COVID-19 outbreaks in various locations, including Shanghai. In the past, Chinese netizens spent considerable energy mocking foreign countries as the pandemic swept unchecked, but now China's government is stru
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China's Shanghai seeks medical care amidst worst COVID-19 outbreak
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 8 (ANI): China's financial hub, Shanghai, has been facing the worst COVID-19 outbreak and has been desperately seeking medical care and basic supplies like food.
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China denies treatment for non-Covid illnesses: HRW
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], April 7 (ANI): The Chinese government should respect the right to health and other basic rights in its response to the COVID-19 surge in the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.
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China deploys strictest COVID-19 curbs in Shanghai since pandemic beginnin
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Shanghai [China], March 30 (ANI): Amid the rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases, the Chinese authorities have imposed the strictest lockdown measures in the city of 26 million since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, a media report said.
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Study finds lockdown measures associated with increased drinking at home
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study has found that the lockdown measures throughout 2020 were linked to people in Scotland and England drinking more at home.
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Netizens protest against lockdown measures in China's Xi'an city
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Xi'an [China], December 30 (ANI): Netizens have written they are facing all sorts of difficulties including non-availability of food in their houses, financial difficulties due to no work in China's Xi'an city.
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Vietnam's capital extends COVID-19 restrictions in some districts for 15 d
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], September 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The administration of the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi will reimpose coronavirus lockdown measures in several city districts for 15 days starting September 6, the government said on Friday.
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GDP levels in Asia to exceed pre-Covid path from 1Q22: Morgan Stanley
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug 20 (ANI): Covid-19 remains an overhang on the near-term growth outlook of Asia and lockdown measures are constraining consumption growth, Morgan Stanley said on Friday.
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Nearly 600 people detained during anti-lockdown protests in Berlin
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], August 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 600 people were detained during protests against vaccination and COVID-19 lockdown measures in the German capital, while over 10 law enforcement officers were injured, Berlin police spokesman Thilo Cablitz told Sputnik.
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