China s coronavirus epicentre Wuhan fight stigmas while residents celebrate life returning to normal
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Kankan (centre) was treated in Wuhan Central Hospital, where the first COVID-19 cases were identified.
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A year on from the global COVID-19 pandemic that was first detected in his hometown of Wuhan, baby Kankan has finally been able to see the outside world without his parents worrying.
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Wuhan residents say their lives have gone back to normal but scars remain
The city is reportedly one of China s top 10 cities by GDP for the first three quarters of 2020
Some residents are still feeling uneasy about the stigma around Wuhan
Irish Examiner view: Humanitarian award puts renewed focus on air safety
Respect must be shown to those who have lost their lives
Thu, 17 Dec, 2020 - 09:10
Mick Ryan, the UN worker killed in a Boeing air crash in 2019, has been named the Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year 2020, a posthumous honour highlighting his belief that engineering could change and save lives but also a reminder of the cruel fact that he lost his life because of an engineering failure.
The global deputy chief engineer with the UN’s World Food Programme was killed with 156 others in March 2019 when a Boeing 737 Max crashed minutes after take-off, just five months after a similar fatal 737 Max crash in Indonesia killed all 189 people on board.
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People wearing masks cross a street in Wuhan on Wednesday.
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How much access the team will have, and whether the visit comes too late, has become a point of contention.
A team of international investigators led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is likely to go to China in early January to study the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak, which first began in Wuhan, in southwestern Hubei province, late last year.
WHO officials said on Thursday the composition of the team and where they would visit was being discussed with China. Babatunde Olowokure, the WHO’s regional emergencies director in the Western Pacific, said at a press conference that China was “welcoming” the team and the visit was likely to happen in early January. How much access the team will have, and whether the visit comes too late, has become a point of contention. China has resisted calls for an independent international inquiry into the origins but has said it would be open to a
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