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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s state planning agency, plans to invest 300 million yuan ($43.5 million) for the construction of hospitals in Wuhan serving patients affected by the coronavirus, official news agency Xinhua reported on Monday. (Reporting by Josh Horwitz and Winni Zhou; Editing by Tom Hogue)
The coronavirus pandemic is, we are told, a once-in-a-century plague that is the worst outbreak of its kind in living memory. But that doesn’t mean we can stop worrying about deadly diseases with the potential to rapidly spread across borders. Epidemiologists have already identified several contenders for the next global medical emergency. One fungal infection, […]
