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Lockdowns cut south Asia smog, and could fill reservoirs too
Cleaner skies over South Asia that resulted from pandemic lockdowns last year likely affected the timing of snowmelt in the Indus River basin of...
China reports 5 new local Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
19 Jun 2022 4:58 AMMeanwhile, a total of 22 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified in nine provincial-level regions, including six in Shanghai, four in Inner...
Foxconn freezes hiring due to shortage of quarantine space
20 Nov 2022 10:36 PMThe company requires 1,00,000 new workers to get back to full capacity, but due to a shortage of quarantine space, it has frozen the hiring, reports...
Wall Street rises on gains in Walgreens, Best Buy
22 Nov 2022 3:52 PMDow component (.DJI) Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O) rose 1.9% after Cowen & Co upgraded the drug distributor stock, citing its healthcare...
Chinese crowds hold up blank sheets to hit out at censorship
1 Dec 2022 12:50 PMAuthorities have since moved quickly to squelch the protests, arresting some demonstrators and sending university students home, in a bid to quickly...
China Covid peak to last two-three months, hit rural areas next
13 Jan 2023 4:57 AMChina last month abruptly abandoned the strict anti-virus regime of mass lockdowns that fuelled historic protests across the country in late November,...
Family members reunite in China after 3-year Covid separation
13 Jan 2023 8:21 AMThe last time the 54-year-old lab worker visited her hometown was in Nov. 2019, one month before the world's first Covid outbreak was detected in the...
'No new Covid variants emerged during China's recent outbreak'
10 Feb 2023 8:12 AMTwo known Omicron sub-variants – rather than any new variants – have chiefly been responsible for the recent COVID-19 surge in China, according to a...