Yu Beibei, a resident of Shanghai, was transferred to the city’s largest makeshift hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. Yu lives with her husband, their two-year-old daughter and a nanny. They were ordered to join a mass test on 2 April and all but her daughter were found to have the virus. After being kept under home lockdown for 10 days, Yu, her husband and their nanny were transferred to the hospital. Their daughter was handed over to her husband’s father before they were hospitalised The Guardian
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Peng Ming-min, Fighter for Democracy in Taiwan, Dies at 98
By that time Mr. Peng had been blacklisted from returning to Taiwan, after a military court in 1964 convicted him of sedition over his involvement with two of his students in the printing of a manifesto calling for the overthrow of the Republic of China government and the establishment of a Taiwanese democracy. American pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to release Mr. Peng had led to his transfer from an eight-year prison sentence to house arrest in 1965. With help from Amnesty International, he escaped in 1970, fleeing to Sweden. The…
China tightens controls as Shanghai reports record Covid cases
Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its “dynamic clearance” approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The Zhengzhou airport economic zone, a central Chinese manufacturing area that includes Apple supplier Foxconn, announced a 14-day lockdown on Friday “to be adjusted according to the epidemic situation”. In north-western China, the city of Xi’an urged residents to avoid unnecessary trips outside their residential compounds and encouraged companies to have employees work…