Around 70% of Shanghai's total population has been infected by COVID during the recent surge in China, a senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals expressed recently as reported by the state media on Tuesday.  "Now the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is very wide, and it may have reached 7...

Malaysia says it will start screening the waste water of flights from China for Covid-19 – but not test travellers – as the Southeast Asian nation prepares for the world’s most populous country to reopen its borders. Anxiety is rippling out across Asia over the possibility of new Covid variants and...

Update (1500ET): The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday that the US will require travelers from China to submit a negative COVID-19 test. Starting Jan. 5 at 12:01 a.m. ET, all passengers from China who are 2 years old and older will need to receive a negative PCR or a...