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| Citizens wait in line in front of a fever clinic at a Beijing hospital |
WASHINGTON — China’s National Health Commission announced on Sunday, December 25, that it will no longer release daily information on the epidemic. At this point, the notification of the epidemic in China, which lasted for nearly three years, came to an abrupt end.
Since the website of China’s National Health Commission first published the “Wuhan Municipal Health Commission Circular on Viral Pneumonia of Unexplained Cause” on January 11, 2020, China, the authoritative authority in charge of public health in China, has issued China’s epidemic situation bulletin almost every day, even during the months when Wuhan and other places have survived the epidemic rags, people’s lives and work have returned to normal, and other provinces and cities in China have basically been free of infected cases.
However, after the epidemic notification was issued as usual on December 24, the Chinese Health Commission had only two words under the epidemic notification column on the 25th: “Explanation”.
The explanation given by the Chinese authorities is that “from now on, daily epidemic information will no longer be released, and relevant epidemic information will be released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research.” ”
China’s National Health Commission did not explain why the nearly three-year outbreak notification was abruptly stopped, or how and how often the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention released information about the outbreak.
The whole of China is currently shrouded in a large-scale, large-scale, and large-scale epidemic of new coronavirus epidemic. This outbreak is different from the previous local outbreaks in some provinces and cities when China also implemented a strict “zero” policy, and the Chinese authorities at all levels adopted strict lockdowns and restrictions on people’s travel to control those places where infected cases were found, and to a certain extent, controlled or delayed the outbreak.
In early December, the Chinese authorities once again called “optimization” of the new coronavirus prevention measures, introducing “ten new regulations”. This is seen as the exit from the “dynamic zero” policy that the Chinese authorities have been unswervingly implementing, China’s epidemic prevention has since been fully liberalized, the government no longer controls the epidemic prevention, and the people are exposed to the mysterious Keron virus that seems to be “everywhere” and highly contagious without any advance warning and preparation.
In addition to the official media of the CCP’s mouthpiece, almost all media websites, witnesses in China, patients infected with the virus, and family members and friends who have been killed by the virus have all confirmed that China’s wave of new coronavirus epidemic, dominated by the Mysterious Keron strain, is unprecedented in terms of geographical scope, coverage scale, and the number of infected people. Some videos or pictures circulating online show that a large number of patients infected with the new coronavirus have been killed.
However, in the severe situation that tens of thousands of people are infected with the new crown virus in almost every province and city in China, the number of new infections reported by China’s National Health Commission is only a few thousand per day, which is far from the hundreds or even thousands of times the number of new infections every day in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Sichuan and other provinces and cities.
Observers pointed out that in the face of possible millions or even more infected cases, the epidemic prevention and control departments in various parts of China have completely lost control of the epidemic, and cannot obtain a more accurate and reliable number of infections.