More than 200 million people had been treated for Covid-19. Read more at straitstimes.com.
in major cities including Beijing, but the outbreak’s true scale is hard to quantify as official data is believed to represent a tiny fraction of the actual number of cases.
A meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee – the apex of Communist Party power – affirmed Thursday that China “created a miracle in the history of human civilisation in which a country with a large population successfully emerged from a widely circulating epidemic”.
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