SHANGHAI — As most nations around the world struggle with new lockdowns and layoffs in the face of the surging pandemic, just one major economy has bounced back after bringing the coronavirus mostly under control: China. The Chinese economy rose 2.3 percent last year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Monday in Beijing. …
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When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action. They locked down two cities with more than 17 million people, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai. They ordered a crash testing regime of nearly every resident there, …
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At a museum in Wuhan, China, a sprawling exhibition paints a stirring tale of how the city’s sacrifices in a brutal 76-day lockdown led to triumph over the coronavirus and, ultimately, rebirth. No costs appear to have been spared for the show, which features a hologram of medical staff members moving around a hospital room, …
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Brazilian officials said Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine made by a Chinese company was effective, bolstering the chances of approval for a second Chinese inoculation that could be rolled out in much of the developing world. Officials in the state of São Paulo, where a prominent medical research institute carried out a large study of …
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A fines de octubre pasado, en París, el vuelo de Duncan Clark recorría la pista cuando el presidente Emmanuel Macron anunció un segundo cierre de emergencia a nivel nacional en Francia. El país tuvo casi 50.000 nuevas infecciones ese día. Estados Unidos tuvo casi 100.000. Clark suspiró de alivio. Viajaba a China. Ese día, el …
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En enero, Melche suele gozar de los dividendos de la atareada temporada navideña, se relaja y planea el resto del año. Ahora, está más limitado que nunca, dijo, y en cuanto a planes “no hay nada”. Está en casa, desempleado, vive de sus ahorros y se pregunta cuándo y si se recuperarán las cosas. “Es …
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The one-sentence letter didn’t say much. The coronavirus vaccine was “manufactured free of porcine materials,” Sinovac, the Chinese vaccine maker, wrote to Indonesia’s state-owned vaccine manufacturer in July. While the letter was promising, Indonesian clerics needed more details. A vaccine laced with the smallest amount of pork DNA could dissuade some followers of Islam from …
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A Chinese pharmaceutical company on Wednesday said late-stage drug trials showed that one of its coronavirus vaccines was effective, delivering positive results that could pave the way for the global rollout of hundreds of millions of Chinese vaccine doses in the coming months. The company, a state-controlled firm called Sinopharm, said that a vaccine candidate[1] …
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In one video, during the lockdown in Wuhan, she filmed a hospital hallway lined with rolling beds, the patients hooked up to blue oxygen tanks. In another, she panned over a community health center, noting that a man said he was charged for a coronavirus test, even though residents believed the tests would be free. …
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El 23 de enero, Shuai, de 43 años, vio con alarma cómo una avalancha de mensajes de aterrorizados dueños de gatos llegaban a su teléfono. Ese mismo día, el gobierno chino cerró Wuhan, donde comenzó la pandemia, en un intento desesperado de detener la propagación del virus. Millones de residentes que se habían ido a …
