Worst three months in decades: China’s economy plunges almost 7% amid coronavirus battle

The world’s second largest economy

The world’s second largest economy, China, took a huge hit due to the Covid-19 outbreak, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. It showed a 6.8 percent drop in the first quarter of 2020 from a year earlier.

That is the first such contraction since Beijing began reporting its quarterly gross domestic product in 1992.

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