COVID-19 infections in China have risen to 37 million in a single day.

According to one report, the coronavirus infected up to 248 million people in China during the first 20 days of December.

According to government estimates, hundreds of millions of Chinese people were likely infected with COVID-19 in the first nearly three weeks of this month.

GUANGZHOU CITY ASKED TO SHUT DOWN FOR A DAY, FOR COVID-19 TESTINGS

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• Guangzhou city asked to shut down for a day, for COVID-19 testing.
• Guangzhou has reported 20 new infections over the past week.
• Saturday's order to stay home applied to residents of five streets in Liwan District in t...

CHINA’S HEALTH COMMISSION HOPES HONG KONG WILL SOON BE COVID-19 FREE

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• China’s health commission hopes Hong Kong will soon be COVID-19 free.
• Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission made such a comment.
• He appreciated the unremitting efforts of the HKSAR government in fig...

CHINA NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION ADMINISTERED 65 MILLION COVID-19 VACCINATIONS

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• China National Health Commission administered 65 million COVID-19 vaccinations.
• The data has been reported to be until Sunday.
• Beijing is said to have given 10 million COVID-19 vaccination doses.
• China is aimin...

CHINA FOREARMED WITH COVID-19 TESTS FOR LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAY SEASON

• China has decided to enforce strict COVID testing implementations during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when teeming millions of people are waiting to travel, as it fights the worst spell of new infections since March 2020.
• China plans to enforce stringent COVID testing req...

CHINA GRANTS CONDITIONAL MARKETING AUTHORIZATION FOR ITS SELF-DEVELOPED COVID-19 VACCINE

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• China grants conditional marketing authorization for its self-developed COVID-19 vaccine.
• Beijing Biological Products Institute Co. Ltd. has developed the inactivated vaccine.
• The self-developed COVID-19 vaccine by China ...

VACCINE TORCHBEARER CHINA RUNNING TRIALS ON OFFICIALS AT BORDER

• At the start of this month, a person helming a well-known, privately-owned Chinese conglomerate told his staff that a vaccine for Covid-19 was slated to come to market by November.
• The boss, whose firm has a healthcare division, said that he saw it as a publicity gimmick to ena...