China to postpone annual congress amid coronavirus fears

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China says it may postpone its annual congress in March, its biggest political meeting of the year, as the military dispatches hundreds more medical workers and extra supplies to Wuhan.

China has said it may postpone its annual congress in March, its biggest political meeting of the year, as the military dispatched hundreds more medical workers and extra supplies to the city hit hardest by the 2-month-old coronavirus outbreak, local media reported.

It noted that one-third of the 3,000 delegates are provincial and municipal-level cadres with important leadership roles working on the front line of the battle against the epidemic. Another 1,200 doctors and nurses from China's military began arriving in Wuhan on Monday, the latest contingent sent to help shore up the city's overwhelmed healthcare system with more than 32,000 additional personnel.

Wuhan has accounted for the vast majority of mainland China's 70,553 cases. Some 60 million people in that area and other parts of China are under lockdown in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading further.

 

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