CNN claimed to break big news Monday. According to leaked documents from Chinese authorities verified by six independent experts including a forensic analysis of the files, China deliberately underreported the severity of its early coronavirus outbreak in the Hubei province.
This sharp slowdown is largely due to the prices of food products, particularly pork, the most widely consumed meat in China, which fell 2.8% year on year in October. This is the first drop in pork prices for 19 months in a country hit by an African swine fever epidemic that has decimated the herd. This crisis has caused a doubling of pork prices in recent years.