Qingming Festival
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About Qingming Festival
The Qingming or Ching Ming festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, is a traditional Chinese festival observed by the Han Chinese of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand. It falls on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Coronavirus: China will stop for three minutes to remember the dead
... Qingming Festival, also known as tomb Sweeping day, is usually a time when people visit the graves of friends and family...
Coronavirus: China mourns the loss of Covid-19 victims with three minutes of silence
... on Saturday the celebrations, coinciding with the annual Qingming Festival, when millions of Chinese families pay respect to their ancestors...
Tomb Sweeping Festival: China is paying a 'virtual' respect ancestors
... Qingming Festival, also known as tomb Sweeping day, is usually a time when people visit the graves of friends and family, to beautify the environment and offerings to their spirits...
Coronavirus: China mourns the loss of Covid-19 victims with three minutes of silence
, China has been the victim of the Corona-Virus outbreak mourned by the observation of a three-minute silence, brings The Nation to a halt.
A Day of remembrance was declared in China on Saturday to honor the More Than 3,300 people have died from Covid-19.
At 10:00 local time (03:00 GMT), the people were still nationwide for three minutes in memory of The Dead .
cars, trains and ships are your horns sounded, sirens rang were flown as flags to half-mast.
The First cases of the coronavirus were discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Hubei province in the Last Year .
Since then, kill The Virus swept The World , infecting More Than a million people and nearly 60,000 in 181 countries.
In Wuhan, the epicenter of China 's outbreak, all the traffic lights were in urban areas, colored red, to 10:00 PM, the end of the traffic for three minutes.
China 's government said The Event was A Chance to respect to the "martyrs", a reference to the 14 medical workers who died in the fight against The Virus .
China came to a standstill, during the three minutes of silence at 10:00 a.m. local timeyou Li Ruifeng, a doctor in Wuhan, died on the Covid-19, after he was reprimanded by The Authorities for trying to warn others about the disease.
"I feel a lot of suffering to our colleagues and patients who died," a Chinese Nurse who treated coronavirus patients, told the news Agency AFP news agency. "I hope you can rest well in heaven. "
the Wearing of white flowers pinned to their chest, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other government officials paid silent tribute in Beijing.
on Saturday the celebrations, coinciding with the annual Qingming Festival , when millions of Chinese families pay respect to their ancestors.
to learn some Chinese first, The World Health organization (WHO), cases of pneumonia with unknown causes, at 31. December of Last Year .
January 18, the confirmed number of cases rose to 60, But experts estimate The Real number was closer to 1700.
the Chinese government said the memorial service was held to pay respects to "martyrs"Only Two Days later, as millions of people are willing to travel for the lunar New Year , The Number of cases was More Than triple discovered tripled, to More Than 200, and The Virus , in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
from this point to the spreading of The Virus began rapidly in Asia And Then Europe, eventually every corner of The World .
In The Past few weeks, China has begun to ease of travel and social distancing restrictions, believing it has health-emergency is under control.
Last Weekend , in Wuhan, partially, the insulation opened after More Than two months.
On Saturday, China 19 new confirmed cases of coronavirus reported, down from 31 A Day earlier. China 's health Commission said, 18 of these cases, travelers from abroad were.
to come As it battles to control cases, all the foreign visitors from abroad, China temporarily banned, even if you stay visas or residence permits.
What is the latest world?As a coronavirus-the crisis in China at a standstill, the rest of The World remains firmly in the grip of the disease.
In the United States today is the global epicenter of the outbreak, The Number of deaths from the disease 7,152 jumped on Friday,
The deaths, the highest daily Death Toll has risen to 1,480 in 24 hours since the pandemic began, AFP news agency reported, citing Johns Hopkins University, the case "tracker".
as of Friday, there were 277,953 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States, an increase of More Than 32,000 in 24 hours.
in the Meantime, deaths continue to rise in Italy and Spain, The Second and third worst-affected countries in The World .
In Italy The Number of deaths increased from 766 on Friday that the total number of 14,681. In Spain, The Number of fatalities, an increase of 932 was 10,935, in the last day.
But there is a hope of shimmer for both countries, as the downward trend in The Number of new cases continues to be.
In other global developments:coronavirus pandemic, china
Source of news: bbc.com
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