After a 76-day lockdown against COVID-19, China s central megacity of Wuhan was finally reconnected with the rest of the world on April 8, 2020. One year on, China has made enormous efforts to contain the pandemic and contributed to the global battle against the virus. It was a very bold, timely and wise step which resulted in quick decline in COVID-19 cases, thus more than compensating the loss to the economy, said Omera Naseer, a public health specialist at National Institute of Health in Pakistan. Being a public health specialist, I really admire China s step of lockdown as it has major contributions in containment of COVID-19 not only in China but across the world, he told Xinhua.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the globe surpassed 131 million on Monday, as an array of countries confronted fresh surges in contagion at the beginning of this month, despite continued efforts to tighten restrictions and administer vaccines.
The global death toll from the pandemic has also hit over 2.8 million, among which nearly 555,000 fatalities occurred in the United States, which also registered the most cumulative cases of over 30 million. Brazil follows with the second highest cases and deaths. Much of America s recent progress against COVID-19 has been erased as new infections jump nationwide, CNN said in a report last week, adding that the troubling B.1.1.7 variant strain is spreading more rapidly in the country, which health experts said is more infectious and deadlier.
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A World Health Organisation investigator looking into the source of Covid-19 in Wuhan says it's “extremely unlikely” the virus was released from a lab.
News by Frank Chung 3rd Mar 2021 10:28 AM A senior Chinese diplomat has warned that people in Australia who choose to make enemies of China will be cast aside in history . Speaking at a Lunar New Year dinner in Canberra on Monday night, China s Deputy Head of Mission Wang Xining defended the country s handling of COVID-19 and hit out at media organisations in particular, saying there were some people in Australia who choose to make enemies to sustain a living and that they had brainwashed the public with negative portraits of China . History will prove that it is wise and visionary to be China s friends, and your children and grandchildren would be proud of you to be China s friends and they will benefit from the relationship with China, Mr Wang said, according to a transcript of the speech posted on the Chinese Embassy website.