World

  • COVID-19 kills over 50,000 worldwide: WHO
  • Houston mayor thanks China for donation of face masks(Huston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Thursday thanked the Chinese city of Shanghai for its donation of 21,000 faces masks.)
  • Queen Elizabeth to address UK over coronavirus
  • Singapore to shut schools, workplaces in new measures
  • Merkel ends her self-quarantine, returns to chancellery
  • S.Korea’s e-shopping posts double-digit growth in Feb.

China

  • Nation to mourn coronavirus victims on April 4(A national mourning will be held on Saturday, this year’s Tomb Sweeping Day, to commemorate those who succumbed to the novel coronavirus, according to the State Council, China’s cabinet)
  • President Xi Jinping says China to increase assistance for Africa’s COVID-19 battle
  • Authorities urge enhanced medical product supervision
  • China cuts RRR for small, medium-sized banks (The people’s Bank of China, the central bank, announced on Friday to cut the cash amount reserved in some rural and city commercial banks, or the reserve requirement ratio, by 1 percentage point, which drops of 0.5 percentage points each on April 15 and May)
  • Luckin Coffee shares down 75% after fraud revelations
  • Developing Asia’s economy to decline sharply in 2020 due to COVID-19: ADB(Asian Development Bank) report
  • Hubei agriculture products in need of buyers(As one of the country’s biggest production bases for crawfish, tea, and shiitake mushrooms, Hubei is facing great challenges to see those agricultural products.)
  • Wuhan airport geared up for reopening on April 8
  • Wuhan continues communities management
  • Zhejiang province to reopen school from April 13
  • Mascots unveiled for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.