The Chinese manufacturing sector saw a sizeable contraction in December along with a spike in cases of Covid-19 in the country as the workforce is prevented from going to work, The Global Times reported.
British virologist and biologist Jonathan Latham, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, a non-profit based in New York said that Beijing is clearly not being open and transparent about case numbers or deaths and that only accurate data can lead to good decisions in China