China posts first drop in GDP on record

Hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, China's first-quarter gross domestic product dropped 6.8%.

That's the first economic contraction since at least 1992, when the country began releasing quarterly GDP figures.

Though it was the original epicenter of the virus, China now accounts for only 4% of the more than 2 million confirmed cases worldwide. The United States accounts for 32%.

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