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All but four of Apple's stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown
Apple has 42 stores in China and 38 of those are open again after a prolonged shutdown following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Chinese agriculture drone makers see demand rise amid coronavirus outbreak
While the coronavirus outbreak in China has hit many industries hard, some technology start-ups in agriculture are seeing demand rise.
LA Chinese Restaurant Tests Customers’ Body Temperature Before Entry
The popular Chinese restaurant, which has three LA-area locations, started taking these coronavirus precautions in late January
Coronavirus forces Europe to confront China dependency
Mounting supply chain problems are fuelling arguments for greater independence from Beijing’s manufacturing might.
Coronavirus Doc in Wuhan: High Blood Pressure Is Major Death Risk
Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor who’s been treating critically ill patients since mid-January.
Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’, study says
Health authorities advise people to stay 1-2 metres apart, but researchers found that a bus passenger infected fellow travellers sitting 4.5 metres away.
Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone Shipments to China Plunge 60% in February
Apple Inc.’s iPhone shipments in China plunged more than 60% in February, when the coronavirus outbreak shut down scores of its stores and hampered key manufacturing partners across its largest international market.
Online Classes Have Parents of Young Children Working Overtime
Working couples are in the impossible situation of holding down full-time jobs while also looking over their kids’ shoulders to make sure they’re keeping up with online assignments.
China’s trade deficit to prolong coronavirus slump
China may have hoped a strong export recovery would help it recoup some of the coronavirus damage, but Beijing has been warned ‘the worst is yet to come’.
Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus
Apple sold fewer than half a million iPhones in China in February, government data showed on Monday, as the coronavirus outbreak halved demand for smartphones.
Even mask-wearers can be ID'd, China facial recognition firm says
A Chinese company says it has developed the country's first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, and help in the fight against the disease.
In Coronavirus Fight, China’s Vulnerable Fall Through the Cracks (Published 2020)
In locked-down cities like Wuhan, isolated seniors and disabled people have largely had to fend for themselves.
Women more likely to survive coronavirus in China, studies find
But frontline female medical workers also report more symptoms of anxiety and depression, researchers say.
Coronavirus ‘highly sensitive’ to high temperatures, Chinese study says
Pathogen appears to spread fastest at 8.72 degrees Celsius, so countries in colder climes should ‘adopt the strictest control measures’, according to researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong province.
Coronavirus infections could increase tenfold every 19 days, study says
Nation’s leading geneticist Jin Li calls on the world to ‘take strong actions on public health, using experiences learned from China and Singapore’.
China says 78 million migrant rural workers have returned to work
A total of 78 million Chinese migrant rural workers have already returned to work, accounting for 60% of the total who left for home for the Chinese New Year holiday, a government official said on Saturday, as Beijing steps up measures to limit the disruption to businesses...
World Economy Watches and Waits for China’s Great Reboot
In any normal year, China’s political class would be convening around now inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to rubber-stamp the year’s targets for economic growth and the policies to make it happen.
Thailand Does the Once Unthinkable by Hindering Chinese Tourism
Thailand is hindering Chinese tourists because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, normally an unthinkable step for a country that relies on their spending for economic growth.
China’s exports and imports plummet on virus impact, figures show
Trade data from China rounded off a horrible week for the world’s second largest economy, with exports and imports both plummeting.
Children may be just as vulnerable to coronavirus as adults, study finds
Researchers looking at cases in Shenzhen say 2 per cent were kids under 15 at early stage of outbreak, but later it rose to 13 per cent
