BEIJING: China faces a million deaths a year from antibiotic-resistant superbugs and a loss of $20 trillion by 2050, an economist and former top Goldman Sachs executive said on Thursday.

Beijing should “take ownership” of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) when it hosts the Group of 20 summit next year, said Jim O’Neill, the leader of a British government-commissioned review on the subject.

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