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News on Healthcare in China

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Quarantined on arrival

Changes in China’s containment effort as local cases start to subside
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Eight weeks ago a new virus was beginning to claim the first of thousands of lives. Foreign nationals jumped on planes home from China, and the Chinese with foreign visas made good use of them – even if it meant not returning to their families ...

Some of the efforts to combat the coronavirus have done more harm than good
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

There is no direct equivalent in the Chinese language for the English proverb “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. But if there were a similar phrase, a few instances from China’s coronavirus containment campaign would ...

Seize the moment

Covid-19 test kit maker Sansure eyes IPO
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

From “containment” to “mitigation” – the US has lately shifted its rhetoric on the nature of its fight against the novel coronavirus, as some public health experts acknowledged that the tools for identifying potential ‘super ...

China ups propaganda effort amid outbreak
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

When 20 year-old Huang Zhibo entered the talent show All For One in 2018, his chosen catchphrase was “to become a different version of myself”. Sadly for the would-be pop idol, it has not turned out to be the version he envisaged ...

China ramps up mask production
Mar 5, 2020 (WiC 485)

The merits of facemasks as protection against Covid-19 are debatable. The World Health Organisation’s first-ever TikTok video talked about the ways we can protect ourselves from the coronavirus. But it didn’t mention face masks once. In its ...

Media celebrates new hospitals, netizens less so
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

Watching a hospital being built – however rapidly – wouldn’t generally be seen as a spectator sport in normal situations. But when you are cooped up in your family apartment sheltering from a new and deadly virus, things take on a new ...

China battles to contain the coronavirus outbreak
Jan 31, 2020 (WiC 481)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated last week that there have been at least 15 million flu cases in the United States since September, leading to 140,000 hospitalisations and 8,200 deaths (the figures were based on a ...

Lunar new year lockdown

Wuhan quarantined in a bid to slow the spread of a deadly virus
Jan 24, 2020 (WiC 480)

Epidemics are a feature of Chinese history. Because of the symbolic threat they posed to an emperor’s ‘heavenly mandate’, they always had a political dimension as well. For instance, in 1910 when the Qing Dynasty was already on the verge of ...

Shanghai biotech company to raise over $100 million on Nasdaq
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

“The first criterion for us to invest in a company is that it does not make much money,” Zhang Lei, founder of Hillhouse Capital, told a conference in Heilongjiang province last year. Lei was highlighting “room to grow” as the most ...

Outbreak claims first two deaths
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Last week WiC wrote about an unidentified pneumonia that sickened 59 people in the central city of Wuhan. Since publication news has emerged that two men have died from the illness (the most recent a 69 year-old man on January 15). Xinhua ...

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