China benefiting from controlling COVID-19 with good practices: WHO expert
Xinhua
11 May 2021, 15:49 GMT+10
GENEVA, May 10 (Xinhua) Most of China are enjoying the benefits of having effectively controlled COVID-19, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Monday. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, made the remarks while replying to a question over the annual Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival that attracted thousands of revelers as well as global media outlets attentions earlier this month, after the once hardest-hit Chinese city revived from the epidemic. Noting that China and other countries, which have a very low incidence rate, remain exceptionally vigilant constantly on the lookout for occasional clusters, Ryan said that those countries react extremely quickly when they see those clusters in order to maintain that level of control.
2021-05-04 14:58 By: Xinhua
A tourist (C) poses for a group photo with performers at the Italian Style Area in Hebei District of north China s Tianjin, May 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)
The news media have linked the travel boom to China s success in containing the spread of COVID-19 and its ongoing mass vaccination campaign.
BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) The May Day travel rush in China signals the nation s stepped-up recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with people thronging at railway stations, airports and tourist sites, criss-crossing provinces.
Passenger trips on Chinese railways hit a new single-day high on Saturday, with nearly 18.83 million trips recorded, according to data released by the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. The figure marks a 9.2-percent increase from the 2019 level, the first day of the International Workers Day holiday, which runs through Wednesday.
CHINA / SOCIETY
By Xinhua Published: May 04, 2021 01:25 PM
A tourist (C) poses for a group photo with performers at the Italian Style Area in Hebei District of north China s Tianjin, May 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)
The May Day travel rush in China signals the nation s stepped-up recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with people thronging at railway stations, airports and tourist sites, criss-crossing provinces.
Passenger trips on Chinese railways hit a new single-day high on Saturday, with nearly 18.83 million trips recorded, according to data released by the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. The figure marks a 9.2-percent increase from the 2019 level, the first day of the International Workers Day holiday, which runs through Wednesday.
After COVID struck China, thousands attend Wuhan music festival
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Monday May 03, 2021
The festival was making a return in Wuhan after it was forced to be online only last year due to COVID-19
Thousands of people attended the first day of the Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival on Saturday.
In warm conditions on the first day of a five-day May Day national holiday revelers in the central Chinese city danced, bounced and screamed with delight as some of their favorite acts took the stage.
The festival was making a return in Wuhan after it was forced to be online only last year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Wuhan gathers to celebrate music festival two years after pandemic struck
Entertainment
Mon, May 03, 2021
Thousands of people attended the first day of the Wuhan Strawberry Music Festival on Saturday.
In warm conditions on the first day of a five-day May Day national holiday revelers in the central Chinese city danced, bounced and screamed with delight as some of their favorite acts took the stage.
The festival was making a return in Wuhan after it was forced to be online only last year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A representative for the organisers told Reuters that numbers were being restricted this year, adding that around 11,000 people were there on Saturday. Barriers were set up in front of each stage and security personnel restricted numbers in those areas. Some spectators wore masks, but many did not.