The Coronavirus pandemic has dragged China’s economy into its worst three-month period in decades.
The world’s second largest economy shrank 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier, according to government statistics released Friday.
The plunge is the worst for a single quarter that China has recorded since it started publishing those figures in 1992.
It’s also the first time China has reported a contraction since 1976.
BUNMI BAILEY
