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Businesses go back to work as
Covid-19 outbreak begins to fade
Article by James Eric (Jay) Black
Chair, Mercer University Department of Journalism and Media Studies
While warning that the Corona The virus, now often referred to as Covid-19, was first reported
Virus is “still grim and complex,” in Wuhan last December, not long before the Lunar New Year
President Xi Jinping has called for when China undertakes the world’s largest mass migration.
more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei province and is a major
industry, and prevent the disease from travel hub connecting some of the nation’s biggest cities. With
disrupting spring planting of crops. a population of 11 million, Wuhan city is larger than London
or New York combined.
Corona viruses are a large family
of viruses causing illnesses ranging By the end of February, finance leaders of the world’s top 20
from the common cold to more severe economies vowed to monitor the outbreak’s impact on global
diseases such as Middle East respiratory growth and act if needed, and predicted growth would pick
syndrome and severe acute respiratory up in 2020 and 2021. G20 finance ministers and central bank
syndrome (SARS). Coronaviruses chiefs were given a sobering presentation by the International
commonly circulate in animals, but some Monetary Fund, which predicted the epidemic would shave
can evolve to infect humans and spread 0.1 percentage points off global growth. “We will enhance
between people. Only seven, including global risk monitoring, including of the recent outbreak of
the new virus, are known to infect Covid-19,” the statement from the financial leaders said. “We
people, according to the US Centers for stand ready to take further action to address these risks.”
Disease Control and Prevention.
3 AmCham South China
Businesses go back to work as
Covid-19 outbreak begins to fade
Article by James Eric (Jay) Black
Chair, Mercer University Department of Journalism and Media Studies
While warning that the Corona The virus, now often referred to as Covid-19, was first reported
Virus is “still grim and complex,” in Wuhan last December, not long before the Lunar New Year
President Xi Jinping has called for when China undertakes the world’s largest mass migration.
more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei province and is a major
industry, and prevent the disease from travel hub connecting some of the nation’s biggest cities. With
disrupting spring planting of crops. a population of 11 million, Wuhan city is larger than London
or New York combined.
Corona viruses are a large family
of viruses causing illnesses ranging By the end of February, finance leaders of the world’s top 20
from the common cold to more severe economies vowed to monitor the outbreak’s impact on global
diseases such as Middle East respiratory growth and act if needed, and predicted growth would pick
syndrome and severe acute respiratory up in 2020 and 2021. G20 finance ministers and central bank
syndrome (SARS). Coronaviruses chiefs were given a sobering presentation by the International
commonly circulate in animals, but some Monetary Fund, which predicted the epidemic would shave
can evolve to infect humans and spread 0.1 percentage points off global growth. “We will enhance
between people. Only seven, including global risk monitoring, including of the recent outbreak of
the new virus, are known to infect Covid-19,” the statement from the financial leaders said. “We
people, according to the US Centers for stand ready to take further action to address these risks.”
Disease Control and Prevention.
3 AmCham South China
