The Chinese mainland for the first time reported zero new domestic COVID-19 cases on Sunday since December 17, some 53 days after the latest outbreak hit the country across several regions this winter. Chinese health experts believed this signals a phased victory against the virus that ensures a safe environment for the Spring Festival holidays.
CHINA / SOCIETY By GT staff reporters Published: Feb 04, 2021 09:19 PM
Peter Daszak (right) and other members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
While the team of 13 WHO experts are halfway through their highly anticipated field visits to Wuhan, capital of Central China s Hubei Province, a number of predominant Chinese epidemiologists - including those close to the National Health Commission and Chinese CDC, jointly called for similar field studies on the origins of the novel coronavirus in other countries, as the Chinese city is considered just the first stop of such scientific work on the global scale.
A message from Wuhan residents to countries that scrutinized the city s lockdown, one year on
Chen Qingqing co-leads the Global Times China desk. She covers diplomacy, Hong Kong affairs and Chinese tech firms.
Chen Qingqing in Beijing, Yang Cheng in Wuhan Published: Jan 22, 2021 08:29 PM Updated: Jan 22, 2021 10:03 PM
Editor s note:
A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives and contain the virus, while maintaining the daily lives of ordinary people, a strategy that Chinese top epidemiologists said to suffocate the virus within Wuhan. The city was therefore dubbed a heroic city, whose sacrifice paved the way for the quick recovery of the country. When the city returned to bustling normal life in April, and Western countries, one by one, faced a more severe onslaught of the coronavirus, many W
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CHINA / SOCIETY By GT staff reporters Published: Jan 12, 2021 09:35 PM
Residents line up to take nucleic acid test at a community in Shijiazhuang, North China s Hebei Province, on January 7, 2021. Photo: VCG
About 22 million people in three cities of Hebei Province neighboring the capital Beijing have been placed under COVID-19 lockdown as of Tuesday, twice the size of the population that was put under lockdown during the Wuhan epidemic, as Hebei has vowed to take resolute measures to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the capital.
The lockdown measures in Hebei cities - Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang - were not as harsh as Wuhan s as residents in Hebei could go downstairs to pick up their deliveries or purchase food from stores inside their residential communities. Vehicles and people in the three cities are not allowed to leave, unless necessary, Hebei authorities said at Tuesday s news briefing.