Passenger train service The northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, hard-hit by the recent COVID-19 resurgence, on Monday resumed the city’s passenger train service as the epidemic situation improves. The city announced that it would start to resume highway services and keep the current measures on passenger flights and inter-provincial and inter-city coach services. The city tightened travel controls to curb the spread of the virus early last month by taking measures including suspending public transport, passenger flights, trains and long-distance coach services as well as restricting highway traffic. Domestic violence claim Government departments in Guide County, Qinghai Province, have begun investigating a case in which a former journalist claimed she had suffered from domestic violence after marrying a local beekeeper, Chinese media reported on Sunday. The investigation was launched after popular Chinese social media website Truman Story posted a statement by Ma Jinyu, who was identified as a former reporter, on Saturday in which she said she had left her husband, Xie Decheng, and the rural county with their three children because she could no longer bear the frequent domestic violence he had inflicted nor his improper relationships with other women. Sinovac vaccine China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Friday granted conditional market approval to CoronaVac, an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech, the company said on Saturday. The Sinovac vaccine, produced by the Beijing-based Sinovac Life Sciences Co., affiliated with Sinovac Biotech, was approved for emergency use in China last June. The vaccine started being used for emergency inoculation among some special groups in the country from July last year. COVID origin Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market may have made it possible for the COVID-19 to spread, but it does not mean the virus originated there, a Russian expert has said. “There is no evidence that the virus originated there” but “hypothetically, there are all conditions for the spread of the virus there,” Vladimir Dedkov, a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) expert team, was quoted as saying by Sputnik on Thursday. (SD-Agencies) | 