China Returns to Its Strict Covid Limits to Fight a New Outbreak

[Pattaya Spotter]

BEIJING — Neighborhoods under strict lockdown. Thousands quarantined. Millions tested in mere days. Overseas arrivals locked up for weeks and sometimes months. China has followed variations of that formula for dealing with the coronavirus for more than a year — and a new outbreak suggests that they could be part of Chinese life for some time to come.

 

https://nyti.ms/35hfyrr

[Jeffr2]

Sucks!!!!  I'm tired of this virus. LOL

[internationalism]

with some 160 hospitalised and some 10 cases daily, it's not really much for a province of 110mln.

It's nothing in comparison to thailand, which has 3k daily cases, thousands hospitalised, tens of thousands in quarantine (sometimes waiting for hospital bed), 30 dead and population 70mln.

Yet in this province there are total lock downs, testing in tens of millions, travelling barred. While thailand just approving phuket sandbox 

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

and a new outbreak suggests that they could be part of Chinese life for some time to come

 

It suggests to me that the more contagious variants have made it back home....now they're really in trouble.

 

[cclub75]

https://nyti.ms/35hfyrr

 

Ah the famous New York Times... The article has been published by other medias.

 

For instance :

NZ Herald :  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-china-hit-by-devastating-outbreak-in-guangzhou/NHST2BLG4RLZUFJRBKLYTVFWMY/

 

It's surprising that no one sees the fake news inside this article.

 

A German national who flew into Shanghai last month said that he had been sent to a hospital isolation room for three days because he tested positive for antibodies, which he attributed to taking a second vaccine dose 16 days earlier.

Nurses took his blood twice a day and performed six throat swabs, four nasal swabs and two anal swabs daily, said the German, who insisted on anonymity to avoid offending the authorities. The hospital room had no towels, no toilet paper and no television, and the bed was a steel plate with a thin mat, he said.

 

2 blood tests

6 tests in the throat

4 tests in the nose

2 tests in the rectum

 

... PER DAY... for 3 days. ????

 

Even by chinese standards, it's totally grotesque.

 

This article was written by the correspondant of NYT in Beijing.

 

Overall a piece of propaganda to scare the West, and to prove us how hard China is fighting the terrible virus.

 

Actually, in a city of 18,7 millions of people... the lockdown is only for 180 000 people (a small village on the chinese scale).

 

The NZ Herald does not hesitate to double down on the propaganda by writing the title : "China hit by devastating outbreak in Guangzhou".

 

Devastating ? Really ?

Edited June 12, 2021 by cclub75