SHANGHAI: Around 9,000 runners — some wearing face masks — took part in the Shanghai International Marathon on Sunday, Chinese media said, a rare mass event in a year when coronavirus laid waste to most such sport.

Prior to the race officials touted it as an opportunity to show how China — where the virus emerged late last year before unleashing a pandemic — is moving ahead despite the continuing global health crisis.

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