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Foreign athletes are due to compete in the Winter Olympics that start February 4 in Beijing and the nearby city of Zhangjiakou, but the government has yet to say whether restrictions that prevent most foreigners from entering China will be relaxed to allow spectators in.
25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped Chinaâs Grasp The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission. Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the SARS epidemic 17 years ago, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, now 84, was under orders to rush to Wuhan, a city in central China, and investigate a strange new coronavirus. His assistant photographed the doctor on the night train, eyes closed in thought, an image that would later rocket around China and burnish Dr. Zhongâs reputation as the nationâs medic riding to the rescue. Chinaâs official history now portrays Dr. Z...
"It will get better," he insisted at the time. For Wuhan, he believes it has, Yu said last month in a rare conversation with foreign media. But he admitted his own recovery has been longer and tougher than he expected. It wiped him out for three and a half months, he told CBC while sitting in the back room of a Wuhan mah-jong parlour near his hospital. "I was very weak after I got sick. It was life-threatening," Yu said. "I lost some 15 kilograms [more than 30 pounds]." He also admitted that "as a doctor, I learned a lot." For instance, how the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the lungs is mu...