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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Joe McDonald

Residents ride public transport in the district of Haizhu as pandemic restrictions are eased in southern China's Guangzhou province, December 1, 2022. (AP Photo)
December 1, 2022, 4:23 pm
China eases COVID controls amid effort to head off anti-lockdown protests
No sign of further demonstrations with heavy police presence on streets, but experts warn country can’t fully open its borders until tens of millions of elderly are vaccinated
By Joe McDonald
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, October 23, 2022. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
October 23, 2022, 8:10 am
Granted a third term, China’s President Xi Jinping expands powers, promotes allies
Breaking tradition of leaving after a decade in power, Xi takes on another 5 years as head of Communist Party; powerful seven-member Standing Committee filled with his supporters
By Joe McDonald
An elderly man plays with children near a commercial office building in Beijing on May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
May 31, 2021, 2:29 pm
In bid to cope with aging population, China raises birth limit to 3 children
Communist Party also agrees to lift retirement age to keep more people in workforce and improve pension and health services for elderly
By Joe McDonald
A worker opens a package of coronavirus vaccine made by a Sinopharm subsidiary during a COVID-19 vaccination session for resident foreign journalists at a vaccination center in Beijing, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
April 11, 2021, 10:52 am
Beijing admits Chinese vaccines ‘don’t have very high protection rates’
Country’s top disease control official makes rare admission of shot’s low efficacy, says use of other inoculations ‘under formal consideration’
By Joe McDonald and HUIZHONG WU
A promoter talks about the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm subsidiary CNBG during a trade fair in Beijing on September 6, 2020. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
December 30, 2020, 11:33 am
China drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine is 79.3% effective in final tests
State-owned Sinopharm’s data release is the first official announcement of late-stage trial data from a Chinese company on its COVID-19 inoculation candidates
By Joe McDonald and HUIZHONG WU
A Long March 5 rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020. (STR / AFP)
December 1, 2020, 11:06 pm
Chinese spacecraft lands on moon to bring lunar rocks back to Earth
Chang’e 5 will be first probe to obtain fresh samples of moon rock since a Soviet mission in the 1970s
By Joe McDonald
An Archdruid performs a ritual near the cordoned off Stonehenge as a small group of people gathered to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England, June 21, 2020. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
June 21, 2020, 4:32 pm
Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less coronavirus testing
Madrid rolls back lockdown to save economy while US president is accused of placing politics ahead of safety to keep confirmed cases down; virus overshadows summer solstice in UK
By Joseph Wilson and Joe McDonald
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, February 26, 2020. (Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP)
May 15, 2020, 3:00 pm
China uses trade as weapon to silence virus criticism
After Australia refuses to back down from call for robust inquiry into origins of outbreak, Beijing suspends some beef imports, threatens huge tariffs on barley
By Nick Perry and Joe McDonald
In this April 16, 2020 photo, a staffer disinfects an alley of the Clinica CEMTRO in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
April 17, 2020, 2:39 pm
‘Tip of the iceberg’: Global virus death toll thought to be seriously incomplete
Thousands of people have died with COVID-19 symptoms — many in nursing homes, which have been ravaged by a disease that hits the elderly the hardest — without ever being tested
By Aritz Parra, Mike Corder and Joe McDonald
A store employee waits outside for customers at a re-opened retail street in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang)
March 30, 2020, 9:43 pm
China’s virus hotspot Wuhan slowly reopens, though many stay inside
Ruling Communist Party rolls back curbs, as it tries to revive the world’s second-largest economy after declaring victory over the outbreak
By Joe McDonald and ng han guan
In this image from video, provided by the California National Guard, a helicopter carrying airmen with the 129th Rescue Wing flies over the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California, March 5, 2020. (California National Guard via AP)
March 7, 2020, 10:51 am
Cruise ship off California in limbo after 21 test positive for coronavirus
Florida reports first 2 deaths from COVID-19 on the East Coast of US as measures to stem outbreak of virus spread to the West
By Joe McDonald
Personnel wearing protective suits wait near an entrance at the Cheung Hong Estate, a public housing estate during evacuation of residents in Hong Kong, February 11, 2020. (Kin Cheung/AP)
February 11, 2020, 10:35 am
China’s death toll from virus tops 1,000, after first day of over 100 dead
The crossing of more grim thresholds is dimming optimism that the near-quarantine of some 60 million people and other disease-control measures might be working
By Joe McDonald
A security guard takes a customer's temperature at the entrance to a grocery store in Beijing, February 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
February 1, 2020, 11:14 am
WHO calls on countries to ready for ‘domestic outbreak control’ as virus spreads
Death toll in China from coronavirus hits 259; Beijing slams US travel restrictions on foreigners who recently visited there
By Joe McDonald and Sam McNeil
A paramilitary policeman wears a face mask as he stands guard near the large portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate adjacent to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
January 28, 2020, 8:53 am
China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate
China has imposed a lockdown on 17 cities with more than 50 million people, in the most far-reaching disease-control measures ever imposed
By Joe McDonald
Ada Yu, left, of Vancouver and a man who wished to remain unidentified, hold a sign in favor of the release of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou outside her bail hearing at British Columbia Superior Courts following her December 1 arrest in Canada for extradition to the US in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 10, 2018. (Jason Redmond / AFP)
January 29, 2019, 5:12 pm
China tells US to back off Huawei as diplomatic spat deepens
Beijing vows to ‘firmly defend’ its companies after telecom giant charged with stealing American technology and violating sanctions on Iran
By Joe McDonald
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