New confirmed cases of infections from the coronavirus in China, also known as COVID-19, are “generally in decline,” China’s ambassador to the EU, Zhang Ming, told journalists on Tuesday. The ambassador was speaking at a meeting in Brussels, organised by the think tank EU-Asia. Topics included EU-China trade relations, but the virus epidemic dominated the conversation. Mr Ming was at pains to detail China’s efforts to contain the epidemic and predicted that the contagion would soon be overcome.
