Coronavirus: for China, the economic pain has only just begun

OF all the harm the coronavirus has inflicted, it is the effect on human health that is the most tragic and the most visible. But it is the unfolding economic catastrophe that truly marks this out as different from any natural disaster or pandemic in living memory.Even now, the final toll can barely be guessed at. Yet some things seem certain already. One of them is that the economy in China, where the novel coronavirus was first identified and which for weeks had been the epicentre of the…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2xbrdtT