Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered this Thursday to continue with the government’s policy of Zero Covid against the pandemic and to stop coronavirus infections “as quickly as possible,” national television reported.
“We must continue to put people and life first, always stick to scientific precision […] and curb the spread of the epidemic as quickly as possible,” Xi said, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
China has been dealing with its worst epidemic rebound for several days since the first wave of infections, in 2020, with tens of millions of people confined throughout the country.
Several confinements have been decreed, especially in the province of Jilin (northeast), where a large part of the cases were detected, and in the city of Shenzhen (south), where 17.5 million inhabitants live.
The Ministry of Health reported this Thursday that 2,432 new cases of covid-19 were reported, distributed by practically all the provinces.
The figures are very low compared to those reported by other countries, but for China they are very high. There, the authorities have adopted a “zero covid” strategy that seeks to limit the appearance of new cases as much as possible.
In Hong Kong (south) hospitals are overflowing with patients and the local population is ransacking supermarkets in panic, fearing that a new confinement will be decreed.
China, where the virus was initially detected at the end of 2019 – in Wuhan (center) – quickly stopped the spread of the epidemic by adopting very strict containment measures, which in some cases involved entire cities.
In recent weeks, Chinese experts have questioned the viability of the government’s strategy against the pandemic. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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