Strong winds of up to 260km / h swept the cradle of the coronavirus pandemic causing several deaths and many injured.
The Covid-19 pandemic had placed Hubei province and the Wuhan metropolitan area on the world map. The cradle of the novel coronavirus epidemic was swept away by strong winds on Friday evening.
Two tornadoes have left at least 12 dead and more than 400 injured after passing through central and eastern China, local authorities said on Saturday. In Wuhan, high winds left eight dead and 280 injured, authorities in Hubei province said at a press conference. The winds blew up to 260km / h and caused significant damage, according to the authorities.
Gusts such as two construction cranes were damaged, one of them collapsing on a construction site.
In addition to vehicles damaged by falling objects, trees were uprooted, metal sheds partly destroyed and electric poles earthed, leaving more than 26,000 homes without power. Nearly thirty homes collapsed, according to the Hubei authorities.
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The city of Suzhou, near Shanghai, was also hit by a powerful tornado with winds over 200km / h. A toll shows four dead and one missing, as well as 130 lightly injured.
In early May already, a violent thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds had killed 11 people in a city near Shanghai.
to followA Chinese robot landed on Mars China landed a small robot on the surface of Mars on Saturday. In July 2020, it launched its uninhabited Tianwen-1 mission, named after the probe sent into space. This is made up of three elements: an orbiter (which revolves around Mars), a lander (which landed on the red plant on Saturday) and on board a guided robot, Zhurong.
> Look for signs of life. The landing took place in an area called Utopia Planitia, a vast plain located in the northern hemisphere, said the Chinese space agency (CNSA). The Chinese robot arrives on Mars a few months after Perseverance, the rover from NASA, the American space agency, which landed on February 18 with the mission of looking for proof of past life. The Chinese mission must also look for possible signs of previous life.
> A first attempt with Russia. Landing on the red plant is far from easy: in the past, many European, Soviet and American missions have ended in failure. In 2011, China did try to send a probe to Mars, during a joint mission with Russia. But the attempt had collapsed and Pkin resolved to continue the adventure on his own. Since then, China has already rolled two small robots on the Moon, the Jade Rabbits 1 and 2, which were released in 2013 and 2019 respectively.
> Billions invested. China is investing billions of euros in its space program to catch up with Europe, Russia and the United States. It sent its first takonaut (Chinese astronaut) into space in 2003. It also launches satellites for itself or on behalf of other countries. It also plans to assemble a large space station by 2022 and hopes to send men to the Moon within ten years.
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