Despite a steady decline in Covid cases, with just 27 being reported on Sunday, authorities said Macau's over 600,000 residents must stay home until Friday

Commercial hub Shanghai said it plans to hold mass testing in many of its 16 districts and in some smaller areas where new infections were reported recently

The lockdown in the Chinese special administrative region was due to end on Monday

Despite few signs of a cholera outbreak in Wuhan, netizens worried about another disease outbreak made this issue a hot topic on China's Twitter-like Weibo on Friday, with 200 million reads

The new device, just 1.3 centimetres in size, "eats" microplastics, which have spread across the world's seas, according to a team from Sichuan University

Over 40,000 new cases were announced on Wednesday, the highest level since May 11 and there are fears cases could soar to 200,000 by mid-August, the PM said

Now an adviser to top European Union diplomat Josep Borrell, Sachs said in a speech in Madrid that he was "pretty convinced" it was caused by a 'blunder'

The world's population will reach 8 billion people in November, but India and China are moving in opposite directions, a UN report said.

The prolonged crisis in the property sector and China's stringent Covid curbs are adding to the pressure that local governments face

The 30-plus casinos in the city will be closed for a week, but analysts say it's likely the suspension could be extended by weeks, with a gaming recovery unlikely till the end of the third quarter.

The highly-transmissible BA.5 is driving outbreaks in many countries outside China and has shown a greater ability to escape vaccine-triggered antibody reactions than other Omicron subvariants

US and EMEA investors put a record $5.8bn into Chinese equities in June after Covid lockdowns ended in Shanghai and other cities and regulators said they would ease their tech sector crackdown