Chinese students return to school amid zero local COVID-19 transmissions
Liu Caiyu Published: Mar 01, 2021 06:15 PM
Students from middle and primary schools and kindergartens in Beijing ushered in the new semester as planned on March 1.Photo:Li Hao/GT
Chinese students on Monday returned to campuses amid zero domestic COVID-19 transmissions for 14 consecutive days.
Schools in Beijing saw students wearing masks return to campus on a snowy Monday morning. When the Global Times visited Jingyuan school in Beijing s Shijingshan district on Monday morning, the reporter saw every student wearing a mask in class and were only allowed to enter the campus after having their body temperature checked.
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Year of Ox Spring Festival signals persisting recovery
Zhao Yusha Published: Feb 18, 2021 12:33 AM
Stay-at-home economy shines during 2021 Spring Festival Infographic: Jin Jianyu/GT
Robust consumption during the Year of the Ox Spring Festival holidays, with crowded cinemas and scenic sites seen across the country amid a stay-put policy introduced to ward off a possible winter spike of COVID-19, again validated strong consumer confidence in the world s second-largest economy, analysts said on Wednesday.
The brisk, but most importantly, stable performance of retail sectors for the Spring Festival holiday season, which began on February 11 and wrapped up on Wednesday, is seen as a good sign for economic performance for the first quarter as well as for the whole year by economists.
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.