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China accuses Donald Trump of spreading a "political virus" at the United Nations after the US leader delivered a harsh attack on Beijing over the Covid-19 pandemic. "When the international community is really fighting hard against the Covid-19, the United States is spreading political virus here in the General Assembly," China's ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, tells reporters at the Chinese Consulate General in New York. SOUNDBITE
China has suspended the issuing of short-term visas to South Koreans in response to Seoul's imposition of travel restrictions on Chinese travellers due to Covid concerns, Beijing's embassy in Seoul says. IMAGES
Protesters gather near the Liangma river in central Beijing to protest against China's zero-Covid policy in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. IMAGES
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam receives the Chinese Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine, along with other Hong Kong leaders. IMAGES
A China People's Liberation Army Air Force aircraft carrying 600,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine lands at an airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Premier Hua Sen, who is at the airport overseeing the arrival of the vaccines, said in January China donated one million doses of the Covid-19 jabs to the Southeast Asian kingdom. IMAGES