Trying times: Two women hugging at a closed street during lockdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in Shanghai, China. Business activities and everyday life in Shanghai are expected to return to normal by late June, according to a three-phase plan announced on Monday.— Reuters
HONG KONG: China will take more resolute and faster actions to screen and isolate Covid-19 risk groups and implement regular nucleic acid tests to reinforce its defence against the Omicron variant, said Ma Xiaowei, minister of the National Health Commission.
The country will accelerate research on Omicron-specific vaccines and advance the administering of booster shots among the elderly, he said in a signed article published on Monday in Qiushi Journal, the flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
