How Health Insurance Works in China, and How It’s Changing

Now China has begun pursuing a second wave of changes. ... Less than 4 percent of China’s population has no health insurance at all. ... Health Insurance in China: The System and Its Changes. Read More

China’s Cities Are Cutting Health Insurance, and People Are Angry

Local governments across China, facing a financial tipping point after three years of expensive Covid measures, are forcing abrupt changes on the country’s health care system, squeezing benefits ... Read More

A new Covid variant could drive up summer cases: Here's what you should know

A new Covid variant that’s gaining momentum globally has landed in the U.S. The World Health Organization announced last week that it was monitoring the variant, NB.1.8.1, following a rise in ... Read More

China's stretched health system braces for peak in COVID infections

China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country's health system even as they downplay the disease's ... Read More

Risk of a dangerous new Covid variant in China is ‘quite low,’ U.S. health expert says

BEIJING — It’s unlikely that a dangerous new Covid-19 variant is spreading in China, said Dr. Chris Murray, Seattle-based director of a health research center at the University of Washington. Read More

China’s COVID Wave Is Coming - The Atlantic

The country’s health-care system is also ill-equipped to handle a surge in demand: For every 100,000 Chinese residents, just 3.6 ICU beds exist, concentrated in wealthier cities; in an out-of ... Read More

China's health system comes under pressure from Covid-19 wave - Le Monde.fr

From 2003 to 2009, China re-established a health insurance system that varies by city and by the status of the insured individual (migrant, resident), but still covers more than 95% of the population. Read More

Insight: COVID and bust: China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls - Reuters

China's government spent at least 150 billion yuan ($22 billion) on coronavirus testing in the first five months of this year, and the total annual cost of building a permanent testing system ... Read More

China’s Covid ‘Exit Wave’: (4) Flattening The Curve? - Forbes

Hong Kong followed a zero-Covid program very similar to mainland China’s ultra-severe version. To no avail – in early 2022, the Omicron variant overwhelmed Hong Kong’s healthcare system and ... Read More

China Braces for Deadly Covid Wave After Loosening Controls - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

China’s easing of its zero-tolerance Covid-19 restrictions is likely to open the door to a wave of infections that could cause chaos and upwards of a million deaths, public health experts said ... Read More

China's strict zero-COVID policy may be gone, but it has been replaced by chaos, confusion and risk. - CBS News

In Beijing, that's meant chaos and half measures. Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry barricades away from a residential community that has just opened after an easing ... Read More

China’s Covid-19 Lockdowns Deal Another Blow to Consumer Spending - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

A renewed wave of pandemic-related lockdowns in major Chinese cities is hampering hopes for a recovery in consumer spending, ... China’s Covid-19 Lockdowns Deal Another Blow to Consumer Spending. Read More