China Reports No New COVID-19 Cases For First Time
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a student to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus as senior students prepare to return to school in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on May 14, 2020. STR / AFP) / China OUT.China on Saturday reported zero new coronavirus infections for the first time since it started reporting data in January, a day after Communist Party leaders celebrated “major achievements” in the virus fight.
The official death toll in the country of 1.4 billion people stands at 4,634, well below the number of fatalities in much smaller countries. The milestone comes a day after the opening of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, where Premier Li Keqiang said the country had “made major strategic achievements in our response to COVID-19.”Authorities in Wuhan have come under fire for reprimanding and silencing doctors who first raised the alarm about the virus late last year, and repeated changes to counting methodology have cast further doubt over China’s official data.
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