Children have lost about a third of a normal school year’s learning since the COVID-19 pandemic began, scientists said in a wide-ranging international analysis published Monday in the scientific journal Nature Human Behavior. The deficit was greatest in math and hit young people from disadvantaged backgrounds the hardest. The pandemic triggered one of the biggest […]
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COVID impact on Chinese economy affects tax revenue growth in 2022
China’s tax revenue rose 0.6% in 2022 from a year earlier, slowing sharply from a 10.7% rise in 2021 due to huge business tax cuts to support a COVID-ravaged economy, data showed on Monday. of the Ministry of Finance. Tax revenue amounted to 20.37 trillion yuan (US$3.02 trillion) last year, while expenditure reached 26.06 trillion […]
China says peak COVID infections exceeded 4,000 deaths a day
New daily infections by COVID-19 in China they peaked at more than 7 million a day around December 22, while deaths hit a daily high of more than 4,000 on January 4, the country’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. The figures, published on the center’s website, come after a leading government scientist […]
Three years later, Wuhan turns the page on COVID-19
”We are no longer afraid!” said the inhabitants of Wuhan this Monday, who recovered a completely normal life three years after the start of a strict and traumatizing confinement to fight against COVID-19. Wuhan, in central-eastern China, has suffered from the outbreak of an unknown virus since the end of 2019, causing pneumonia in a […]
Relief and caution in the first Chinese New Year after the end of the “zero COVID”
Three years later, the Chinese live with relief the first Lunar New Year no restrictions against COVID-19although also with caution due to the increase in the number of infections predicted by experts in this festive period. In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese, who usually return to their places of origin during this festive period, faced […]
Blinken will travel to China on February 5 and 6
The head of diplomacy USA, Anthony Blinkenvisit China on February 5 and 6, a US official confirmed Tuesday. The objective of the trip, the first of this level since 2018, is to ease diplomatic and economic tensions with the main adversary of USAadded the official, who requested anonymity. The White House announced this visit in […]
Return to normality post-COVID “exceeded our forecasts”, acknowledges Chinese leader
The epidemic peak in China and return to normality “Exceeded our forecasts”Vice Premier Liu He said Tuesday, a month after the sudden abandonment of the zero-zero policy COVID-19. “The time required to reach the epidemic peak and return to normality was relatively fast. In a way, it exceeded our forecasts.” declared the Chinese leader at […]
Chinese economy grew 3% in 2022, according to official data
The economy of China It grew 3% in 2022, one of the lowest levels in the last 40 years, due to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 and the crisis in the real estate sector, according to official figures released on Tuesday. Beijing had set a goal of 5.5% expansion for last year, lower than the level […]
China’s growth in 2022 would be the lowest in 40 years
The economic growth of China in 2022 it is projected as the weakest in four decades, after the crisis of the pandemic and that of the real estate sector, analysts indicated before the announcement of the GDP scheduled for this Tuesday. Ten experts consulted by the AFP agency forecast a GDP expansion of 2.7% year-on-year […]
China announces nearly 60,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 in a month
Chinacriticized for its lack of transparency about the pandemic, announced on Saturday some 60,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the lifting of its sanitary restrictions a month ago, but the World Health Organization (WHO) requested more detailed data. After three years of applying some of the most draconian restrictions in the world, China abruptly lifted most […]