Death toll in mainland China's new coronavirus outbreak soars to 636 with the total number of infections climbing past 30,000
Motorcycle riders wearing protective facemasks wait for the green light on a street in Shanghai on February 7, 2020.
China is fully confident and capable of defeating the epidemic, and the long-term trend of the country's economic development will not change, Xi said.The outbreak has spread to some two dozen countries, triggering travel restrictions and quarantines around the world and a crisis inside the country of 1.4 billion.
“If the officials had disclosed information about the epidemic earlier,” Li said in an interview in the Times via text messages, “I think it would have been a lot better. There should be more openness and transparency.” Authorities also moved people with milder symptoms into makeshift hospitals at sports arenas, exhibition halls and other public spaces.
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