Chinese man sentenced to death after stabbing officials at coronavirus checkpoint

A man was sentenced to death by a Chinese court for fatally stabbing two officials at a checkpoint. As per reports, checkpoint was set up to control spre of coronavirus outbreak. sentence was handed down by court on March 1 to 23-year-old man.

'Extremely vicious' attack

According to reports, incident occurred on February 6 when Ma Jianguo was driving a minivan through a checkpoint at Luo Meng vill in Honghe, southwestern Yunnan province. After being stopped at checkpoint, Ma was reportedly uncooperative with checkpoint officials. 

During incident, Ma's fellow passengers began to remove blocke according to court. Ma n stabbed official, a poverty alleviation cre in chest and in abdomen with a knife he was carrying. Ma n stabbed ar official when he came to first victim's aid. Both officials died from ir wounds. As per reports, court claimed that while Ma h voluntarily surrendered and truthfully confessed to stabbing, but crime was extremely vicious.

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dely virus that first emerged in China in December last year has spre to more than 70 countries and has infected more than 88,000 people, including over 80,000 in China. China's National Health Commission (NHC) received reports of 202 new cases on March 1. Around 42 deaths were also reported on March 1 in virus-hit Hubei Province and its capital Wuhan.

Lower levels of pollution

NASA recently released aerial ims of Earth which showed a drastic decline in pollution levels over rrn China in past month.  aerial ims which were released by NASA along with European ncy (ESA) on former’s website compare concentration of nitrogen dioxide across China between January 1-20 i.e. period before quarantine and February 10-25  i.e during quarantine with results showing drastic difference. 

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According to media reports, Nitrogen Dioxide levels typically surge in February as factories reopen and more vehicle take over ros after Chinese Lunar year. Fei Liu, an air quality researcher at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center, in public statement, said that it was first time that she h seen such a “dramatic drop-off” in 2. According to NASA, a similar case was observed during 2008 recession but decline was grual. Ar case was observed around Beijing during 2008 Olympics but effects were localised around Chinese capital.