This is where the pandemic was born. Meanwhile, it has spread to the surface of the globe, contaminating more than 5 million people, including nearly 330,000 fatally. In China, no new case of contamination with the coronavirus was identified Saturday. It was the first time since the country started publishing data on the epidemic in January.
The disease appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, but the contagion was practically stopped in the country, where the latest assessment indicates nearly 83,000 cases of contamination, including 4,634 fatal.
"We have achieved a major strategic success in our response to Covid-19," proclaimed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday at the opening of the plenary session of the National People's Assembly (PNA), annual high mass. of communist power. Before 3000 deputies with masked faces, Mr. Li stressed, however, "the immense task" that remained to be accomplished.
The Trump administration accuses the Chinese authorities of having delayed alerting the world to the epidemic and of concealing its magnitude. Beijing vigorously denied the charges of concealment, claiming that it had always shared its information on the epidemic in good time with the WHO and other countries.
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