BEIJING - China will build more medical facilities and expand testing capabilities, as part of medical reforms to prevent the resurgence of an epidemic like Covid-19, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday (May 22).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China will build more medical facilities and expand testing capabilities, as part of medical reforms to prevent the resurgence of an epidemic like Covid-19, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday .
"The Covid-19 epidemic is the fastest spreading, most extensive and most challenging public health emergency China has encountered since the founding of the People's Republic," he told some 3,000 assembled delegates at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital. The coronavirus has also dealt the economy a heavy blow, after the government instituted lockdowns to curb the spread of the virus - China's GDP contracted 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year, the worst on record.
China is facing both international and domestic criticism over whether it had reported the emergence of the coronavirus in a timely manner - first discovered as a mysterious pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan.
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