lockdown

Beijing’s regulatory crackdown cost tech companies as much as $2 trillion of market value. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

How useful is big tech in a Covid lockdown, really?

Chinese consumers are falling out of love with their super apps

A worker in a protective suit keeps watch outside a cordoned-off entrance following the Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai, China, 30 March, 2022. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

'Stop asking why': Shanghai tightens Covid lockdown, Beijing keeps testing

Medical workers in protective suits stand next to a line of residents waiting to take nucleic acid test at a locked down residential area, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China April 7, 2022. Picture taken April 7, 2022. REUTERS
Global Economy

China April factory activity contracts at steeper pace as lockdowns bite

FILE PHOTO: Police and security members in protective suits stand outside cordoned off food stores following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China 29 March, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

More than 12 mln in Shanghai can leave homes as Covid risk ebbs

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Global Economy

China lockdowns drag on earnings of chipmakers, industrials

Medical workers in protective suits stand next to a line of residents waiting to take nucleic acid test at a locked down residential area, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China April 7, 2022. Picture taken April 7, 2022. REUTERS
Analysis

China's Xi sticks with Covid stance despite anger, economic headwinds

Cap: China’s Covid outbreak and lockdowns could result in further disruption to already strained food supplies, adding to global risks. Photo: Reuters
Analysis

China’s Covid lockdowns, surging oil add to inflation risks

A person in a protective suit walks with a dog in a residential area under lockdown following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China April 4, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song
Coronavirus chronicle

Whole of Shanghai enters Covid lockdown despite lower symptomatic cases

A police officer in a protective suit keeps watch on a street, as the second stage of a two-stage lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) begins in Shanghai, China 1 April 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song
Coronavirus chronicle

As Shanghai expands Covid lockdown, life on hold in city of 26 million

A worker in a protective suit keeps watch outside a cordoned-off entrance following the Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai, China, 30 March, 2022. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Shanghai expands Covid lockdown as new daily caseload surges by a third

A police officer in a protective suit keeps watch next to a bridge leading to the Pudong area across the Huangpu river, after traffic restrictions amid the lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Shanghai, China, 28 March, 2022. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Shanghai tightens Covid lockdown on second day of curbs

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a face mask walks next to barriers set up to block buildings from a street in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song
Coronavirus chronicle

Chinese cities and factories lock down as outbreak spreads

FILE PHOTO: People line up to get their nucleic acid test at a mass testing site following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
China

China locks down city of 3.5 million near Vietnam border