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World Business Report: First broadcast 18/04/2022 14:32 GMT : China announces first Covid-19 deaths since 2020

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China announces first Covid 19 deaths since 2020

First broadcast 18/04/2022 14:32 GMT 

First broadcast 18/04/2022 14:32 GMT : China announces first Covid-19 deaths since 2020

China announces first Covid-19 deaths since 2020

BBC World Service - World Business Report, China announces first Covid-19 deaths since 2020

China has acknowledged its first deaths from Covid for more than two years.

China has announced three deaths from coronavirus, the first in the country since 2020. And there's more bad news; the Financial Times newspaper is reporting that record numbers of citizens have been enquiring about leaving China for good- the FT's China economics reporter, Sun Yu, gives us the details. And we hear more about China's economy from James Mayger, China Economy editor for Bloomberg News in Beijing. And Covid-19 changed many aspects of the way we work and the traditional face-to-face job interview is one of the pandemic's many casualties with virtual interviews have becoming the norm; the BBC's Elizabeth Hotson has been looking at how virtual reality and artificial intelligence are already changing the way companies hire people. Plus, one of the UK's biggest video games festivals, Insomnia, finishes today; festival organiser, Craig Fletcher, brings us the highlights. 
(Picture description: Chinese flag, picture credit: Getty Images).

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