A U.S. travel advisory asks Americans to reconsider travel to China due to enforcement of exit bans and the risk of wrongful detention.

Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19, in what city officials say was an initial round of testing.

China’s health authorities have reported two COVID-19 deaths, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant.

The “stealth omicron” variant is fueling China's biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years, with 1,337 local cases tallied across the mainland.

(AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING – In China, the problem doesn't seem to be a shortage of vaccine. China, with 1.4 billion people, has a much lower rate of vaccination than many other countries. Because the outbreak was not widespread in China, a relatively small proportion of the population acquired immunity through past infection, He said. China itself has had a vaccinated person get infected, its only recent case of domestic spread of the coronavirus. Wang Huaqing, an immunization expert at China's CDC, said that vaccines have failed to prevent infection in a small number of cases.

CNN VideoHONG KONG - Hong Kong saw a significant drop in air passenger numbers last month as political unrest in the Asian financial hub continues unabated. Hong Kong International Airport handled 6 million passengers in August, down 12.4% from the previous year, according to figures released by the Airport Authority on Sunday. The fall in air traffic numbers comes as Hong Kong's anti-government protests over a now-withdrawn extradition bill run into their 15th consecutive weekend. "In the past few months, there have been huge challenges to airport operations at times," C. K. Ng, the AA's executive director of Airport Operations, said in a statement. "Our inbound Hong Kong traffic was down 38% while outbound was down 12% year-on-year, and we don't anticipate September being any less difficult."

China Photos/Getty ImagesHONG KONG - The global selloff continues. Global stocks fell on that move, including US markets, which suffered some of their biggest drops of the year. The Trump administration later labeled China a "currency manipulator." The yuan remained volatile on Tuesday after the People's Bank of China fixed the currency at its weakest level in 11 years. Outside of China, where the yuan trades more freely, one dollar buys about 7.09 yuan.