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Nothing to see: COVID origins off-limits as China’s Wuhan touts recovery – Sydney Morning Herald
Foreign journalists have been invited on an official tour to report on Wuhan’s efforts to rebuild its economy after the months-long trauma of COVID-19.
The location of more than 80 per cent of the country’s COVID-19 deaths, the central Chinese city on the banks of the Yangtze river has reported no cases of local transmission since April, and most of the stringent controls imposed during a two-month lockdown have been relaxed.
But Wuhan was accused of acting too slowly in the early stages of the outbreak amid fears of disrupting the economy or displeasing China’s leadership in Beijing. Critics say media censorship and the silencing of whistlebl…
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