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Beijing [ China ], February 21 (ANI): Contrary to what population experts had expected, birth rate s declined in China during the COVID-19 lockdown even though the communist nation has ended the one-child policy and given incentives to couples to have two children. When COVID-19 first broke out in China , many speculated and some government officials and demographers hoped that the widespread lockdowns, which confined millions of Chinese people to their homes, would yield a boom of quarantine babies, Sup China reported. Citing preliminary data, Sup China reported that the birth rate s declined between 9 per cent and...
