People wearing protective taking a break in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai, on Saturday (March 7). While infections in the rest of the world accelerate, the coronavirus is showing signs of easing at its centre -- China -- with new cases slowing dramatically and recoveries gathering pace. - AFP
BEIJING: In any normal year, China’s political class would be convening around now inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to rubber-stamp the year’s targets for economic growth and the policies to make it happen.
Instead, the Chinese capital is hushed. Large gatherings are called off as the nation and the rest of the world grapple with the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak that’s killed thousands and stopped output in China and is now spreading on multiple continents.
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