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After several days with no "home-grown" infections, according to China’s official figures, there is a feeling there that the coronavirus emergency appears to be under control.
People in Beijing are finally heading outdoors, as China correspondent Stephen McDonell reports.
The command centre handling the crisis ordered that the checkpoints – set up when the city was locked down in January to contain the spread of the virus – be cleared starting from Friday, as Wuhan prepares to return to work.
But routes out of the city would remain blocked, according to a notice issued by the command centre.
A video posted on social media by Dahe Daily on Saturday showed several checkpoints being taken down in Huangpi district, and fireworks being set off to celebrate the removal of one in Xinzhou district.
The Chinese government will do anything at this point to downplay the severity of the situation. It's quite clear that the economic impact to them is about to hit harder than anywhere else in the world, as most other countries are likely going to pull out their manufacturing and business.
as most other countries are likely going to pull out their manufacturing and business.
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne
The Chinese government will do anything at this point to downplay the severity of the situation. It's quite clear that the economic impact to them is about to hit harder than anywhere else in the world, as most other countries are likely going to pull out their manufacturing and business.
IDK, Italy and Iran have been hit worst I think, Europe is still climbing.
And this has just started in the US. Comparatively, the US is in very bad shape as far as the fact that we are at the bottom of our curve. Climbing faster than any other country did at this early point in the curve, we are trying to flatten.
I agree 100% about not trusting China or really anyone about numbers.
Not so with China. When the rest of the world recovers from this, they will all be laser focused on China's culpability, and the only consequences in today's world, short of all out war, would be to take our business away from them and minimize our exposure to this type of incident occurring again. I'm not suggesting we isolate them or ostracize them... I'm suggesting that they don't deserve to be an economic engine of the world if they don't give a flying f**k about the health of the rest of the world they do business with.
It will be interesting to see if there are more people on the Wuhan live feed when the sun comes up this morning in China.