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11:02, February 24, 2020

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  Shops reopen across China amid epidemic

  On Sunday, a popular milk tea store in Huangxing Road, Changsha, capital city of central China's Hunan Province resumed operations. Many people came to the store and formed a line of 100 meters long. A staff member of the milk tea store said everyone in the line needed to keep a distance of 1.5 meters and the customers in the store had to take a temperature reading and use hand sanitizer. The photo shows the long line of customers before the milk tea store. (Photos:chinanews.com and Xinhua)The photo shows a customer ordering food.A customer leaves after taking out his food.A staff takes a customer’s temperature.A staff holds a sign to remind people to follow the guidelines of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).Customers wait at a restaurant in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, capital city of South China's Guangdong Province on Sunday night. Recently, many restaurants in Guangzhou have started to reopen. At a restaurant in Tianhe District on Sunday night, Guangzhou, a customer writes down his order.At a restaurant in Tianhe District on Sunday night, a waiter gives the customers water.At a restaurant in Tianhe District on Sunday night, cooks are very busy. During the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic, some companies and shops in Shanghai have reopened. The shops along the Nanjing Road, Shanghai carried out personnel administration and control, temperature checks, personal protection and public space disinfection, thus ensuring an orderly operation resumption. The photo shows a staff taking the customers’ temperature at a shopping mall in Nanjing Road, Shanghai on Sunday.On Sunday, customers buy pastries at a shopping district in Nanjing Road, Shanghai. （Compiled by Mo Deyuan）

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  China takes measures to ensure basic energy supply

  A ship loaded with coal prepares to leave Huanghua port, Cangzhou city, North China’s Hebei Province, on Feb 17, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily/Shi Ziqiang)A worker from State Grid Henan Electric Power Company carries out emergency operations to ensure the electricity supply and the resumption of economic activity in Central China’s Henan Province, on Feb 13, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily/Luo Hao)A worker from China National Petroleum Corporation’s Jilin branch checks oil and gas pipelines to ensure their safety in Northeast China’s Jilin Province, on Feb 23, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily /Li Jiading, Cui Nan)Two workers examine oil well equipment in Liaohe Oilfield, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, on Feb 22, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily /Hu Jingyi, Ma Zhixian)Workers from a local power supply bureau inspect the electrical equipment at an auto plant in Wanshan district of Tongren city, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on Feb 23, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily/Su Bin, Yi Xiao)A worker from a local coal company ensures production safety in mines in North China’s Shanxi Province, on Feb 21, 2020. (Photo: People’s Daily /Zhou Yajun, Sun Yanbin) (Compiled by Jiao Jingxian)

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  Olympic Broadcasting Services World Broadcaster Meeting held in Madrid

  Zhang Jiandong , Vice Mayor of Beijing and Executive Vice President of Beijing 2022, attends the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) World Broadcaster Meeting (WBM) online at Shougang headquarters in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 24, 2020. Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) World Broadcaster Meet

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  S.Korea confirms 231 more cases of COVID-19, 833 in total

  Local residents take an escalator in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. South Korea confirmed 231 more cases of the COVID-19 on Monday, raising the total number of infections to 833, and the death toll rose to eight. The country raised its four-tier virus alert to the highest "red" level on Sunday as the viru