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China claims worst is now over, downplays possibility of the second wave

Chinese health experts have said that the worst of the coronavirus crisis is now over, not acknowledging a large number of warnings that the virus could come back in a 'second wave'. The experts have said that China will be able to eliminate the virus in the same way it eliminated SARS in 2003.

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