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China Continues Slow Recovery from Pandemic as Ceremonial Congress
Reschedules Meeting

VOA News

   China's parliament will hold its annual session in late May, two months
   later than scheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

   The official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that the National
   People's Congress will convene in Beijing on May 22. The 3,000-member
   ceremonial legislature was originally scheduled to meet on March 5, but
   the session was postponed after the COVID-19 outbreak that originated
   in the central city of Wuhan spread throughout the mainland.

   The gathering indicates that Chinese leaders are growing increasingly
   confident that the country has overcome the pandemic, which has
   infected nearly 83,000 peoplein Chinaand killed more than 4,600.

   China's official number of infections have dwindled dramatically over
   the last month, with no new deaths reported for twoconsecutiveweeks.

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