Economy of China's original coronavirus epicenter down 39.2% in 1st quarter

The economy of China's Hubei Province, the original epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, plunged 39.2 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter of 2020, official data showed Tuesday.The economies of the country's biggest commercial hub Shanghai, and the capital Beijing, also shrank 6.7 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively, in a sign of just how quickly the spread of the virus stifled business activities in the world's second-largest economy.China's overall economy marked its first quarterly decline on record during the January-March period, down 6.8 percent from the previous y…READ FULL ARTICLE