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Shanghai officially lifted its brutal two-month coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday. The announcement was accompanied by a flurry of editorials from Chinese state media seeking to reassure nervous foreign investors that lockdowns are over for the time being.

While the PM offered his own apologies he also clashed with his political opponents, jibing his Labour opposite Sir Keir as “Sir Beer Korma”.

Nearly 4,000 people in London were handed £200 ($250) fines for not wearing masks on London’s public transport system during the UK’s lockdown.

The “partygate” report has called on Boris Johnson to take “responsibility” for failing to abide by his own covid lockdown rules.

London’s leftist mayor, Sadiq Khan, has demanded the city’s cops explain not giving more fines to Boris Johnson after pictures of the PM appearing to break lockdown rules leaked in the media.

A senior civil servant is due to release her findings on “partygate,” the scandal over gatherings at Boris Johnson Downing St. residence.

A German court has ruled forced vax rule for caregivers constitutional, endangering the jobs of many unjabbed workers in the sector.

Measures akin to a COVID lockdown are needed in order to curb the EU’s reliance on Russian oil, one member state has said.

Peking University students in Beijing on Sunday night tore down part of a metal fence that administrators erected without warning hours earlier after the students realized it effectively sealed them inside their dormitories and prevented them from accessing any other section of the campus as part of the school’s anti-Chinese coronavirus protocol, Hong Kong’s the Standard newspaper reported.

A host of EU nations have insisted that they will keep forcing plane passengers to wear masks, despite the EU lifting its bloc-wide requirement on Monday.

Shanghai officials announced in a press conference on Sunday that they would begin to lift the month-long total lockdown of China’s largest city “in phases,” claiming only some businesses would enjoy the right to function and leaving open the possibility for a renewed mass house arrest order at any time.

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle company made a devil’s bargain with the Chinese Communist government to keep its Shanghai “Gigafactory” running by forcing its employees to live inside the plant, working harsh 12-hour six-day shifts and camping on the factory floor in sleeping bags.

Following two years of lockdown measures, New Zealand will finally lift its coronavirus border restrictions in July, said PM Jacinda Ardern.

A 13-year-old boy was recently forced to live alone at his family’s apartment home in China’s Kunshan city for 66 consecutive days after his parents visited neighboring Shanghai for medical treatment in late February and became trapped in the city when it was locked down to contain its latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.

The month-plus Chinese coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai expanded to include nearby suburban communities on Monday, the state-run Global Times reported, revealing Chinese health officials “sealed off” residential compounds in the county of Tonglu and the city of Jiangyin after detecting fresh outbreaks of the disease in local populations.

Shanghai’s government reimposed Chinese coronavirus lockdown orders on “hundreds” of the city’s districts Monday for at least the second time since April 5, citing a need to contain fresh localized outbreaks of the disease in the affected quarters, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The European Union’s parliament has voted to extend the bloc’s regime of COVID passes until 2023 despite harsh criticism from some elected representatives.

A “dystopian surveillance system” consisting of CCTV, phone, and transaction monitoring was planned by government in the hopes of combatting COVID, an upcoming book will claim.

America’s public school system, an institution destroyed by sexual predators, cronyism, incompetence, and corrupt unions, is losing students and the big dollars that come with those students.

Liang Wannian, the head of a Chinese coronavirus “response expert panel” for China’s National Health Commission, “stood firm” on Friday regarding her panel’s belief that Shanghai should remain under a city-wide lockdown to contain a local outbreak of the disease, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

China’s government indicated on Wednesday it plans to ease Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown one day before suggesting it might impose a lockdown on Beijing, according to Chinese state media reports.

Tens of thousands of kids in the United Kingdom have been driven into clinical depression by coronavirus lockdowns, a study has found.

The city of Shanghai is in danger of losing its status as a financial hub, as international bankers and traders consider fleeing the city to escape its brutal coronavirus lockdown – and the perpetual threat of further lockdowns imposed without notice under China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” policies.

A British court ruled that the government’s move to discharge hospital patients into care homes without testing them for covid was illegal.

A mysterious surge of hepatitis in children may be down to long periods of harsh anti-COVID lockdown, one government expert has suggested.

Shanghai government authorities vowed on Sunday to prosecute companies and individuals accused of illegally distributing essential foodstuffs to city residents during Shanghai’s ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdown, China’s state-run Global Times reported Monday.

A viral video allegedly showcasing real Shanghai residents complaining about the Communist Party’s brutal coronavirus lockdown of China’s largest city went viral this weekend in the country, reportedly vexing censors attempting to suppress it.

Shanghai’s government on Thursday began installing electronic door alarms on some residences to prevent people from leaving their homes while the city’s entire populace remains under a state-mandated Chinese coronavirus lockdown, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.

British lawmakers ordered a parliamentary investigation into Boris Johnson for allegedly lying about whether he broke lockdown restrictions.

In short order we will start to see the effects of China’s COVID “static management” lockdown in global supply chains and the supply of goods in the United States.

Boris Johnson offered a “wholehearted” apology for attending an illegal party during lockdown – but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules.

Germany’s health minister has been lambasted for fearmongering by experts after warning that a killer COVID variant could emerge this autumn.

China’s ruling Communist Party strategically labeled expanding nationwide Chinese coronavirus restrictions over the weekend as “temporary controls of social activities” after some residents in certain affected cities, such as Xi’an, reportedly “panicked” after first learning of the movement restrictions, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged on Saturday.

The Scottish First Minister has been referred to police over an alleged breach of her own coronavirus mask rules. 

Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown, which began in full on April 5 and applies to all of the city’s roughly 26 million residents, has caused “doubt, anxiety and fatigue” among the financial hub’s populace, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged on Friday.

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.