China on Sunday reported its six-month number of new COVID-19 infections, a day after fitness officials said they were sticking to strict coronavirus restrictions, likely disappointing investors’ recent hopes for a relaxation.
China on Saturday recorded 4,420 new COVID-19-borne infections, the National Health Commission said, the most since May 6 and up from 3,659 new local instances the previous day.
While the number of cases is incredibly low by global standards, China has remained faithful to a 0 COVID system for about 3 years after the pandemic that includes lockdowns, quarantines, periodic testing, and a drastic reduction in inbound travel.
At a press conference Saturday, fitness officials reiterated their commitment to “dynamic cleansing” of COVID cases as soon as they appear.
China’s anti-COVID measures are “quite correct, as well as the most economical and effective,” said disease official Hu Xiang. “We want to adhere to the precept of putting other people and lives first, and to the broader strategy of preventing imports. “from the outside and inside bounces. “
Chinese stocks soared last week on rumors of an imaginable relaxation of COVID restrictions, and media reports that some policy changes could come soon.
However, many analysts said they expected a significant easing to begin ahead of China’s annual parliamentary consultation in March.
Goldman Sachs analysts said Saturday’s announcement showed that “the government will still have to maintain its 0 COVID policy until all arrangements are completed. It would possibly take a few months, in our opinion,” they wrote, stating that their “basic” expectation was for a reopening in the April-June quarter.
The southern city of Guangzhou continued to report a surge in infections, with 66 new symptomatic cases and 1,259 asymptomatic cases transmitted locally, to 111 symptomatic cases and 635 asymptomatic cases last day, the government in the city of nearly 19 million more people said. .
The Chinese capital, Beijing, last day reported 43 symptomatic and six asymptomatic cases, to 37 symptomatic cases and five asymptomatic cases.
Still, the annual Beijing marathon was held Sunday morning under strict COVID protocols, after being canceled for the past two years.
Some 26,000 attendees registered for the event, which began under a smog-filled sky in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. The runners had to undergo PCR tests for 3 days before the race and not leave Beijing for seven days.
China, like Japan, is a masked country. Very very masked.
And like in Japan, you can see how well (ahem) the mask paints there. . . in the number of COVID cases that is emerging abruptly.
Given the remarkable accumulation of COVID cases in either country, while most other countries in the world have abandoned the mask, I don’t know how the mask could logically protect as something approaching an effective COVID measure to imply this.
It is silly and inexplicable.
If you take a look at the news in China, there will be an uninterrupted stream of “experts” explaining “the science” of the government’s decision.
Anyone who questions the dominant narrative coming from the Chinese media is branded an agent of disinformation.
Sound familiar?
Anyone who questions the dominant narrative coming from the Chinese media is branded an agent of disinformation.
Sound familiar?
The Chinese Communist Party is issuing a gag order on all doctors and like-minded doctors threatening them with punitive measures if they do not stick to the official narrative about vaccines, masks and containment measures.
Does it sound familiar, too?
Their strategy is clearly working. It’s time to redouble your efforts and keep everyone inside for at least the next 6 months. My colleague on a business trip to China was locked in a hotel room outside Beijing for 2 weeks. I’m glad it’s not me.
was locked in a hotel room outside Beijing for 2 weeks
Yes, of course it works, or has your colleague stuck crown or just spread it widely?
You make the same mistake.
Asking for a source of anything you have claimed is not a mistake, not having this source means that your claim is based only on your non-public opinion, which is evidently not a valid source.
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So, your argument is that you forget this well-known fact?This would mean that you are not informed enough to have an opinion on this topic.
https://edition. cnn. com/2022/09/12/economy/china-covid-lockdowns-economy-research-intl-hnk/index. html
https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=IWQTmjzMaPE
https://www. nytimes. com/2020/12/19/technology/china-coronavirus-censorship. html
Sweden?Are you posting in the right article? No one talked about Sweden.
Does this mean that he disqualifies his own comment because he mentions the US?They are and counterproductive, it means that you have already identified that other countries are doing better.
China, like Japan, is a masked country. Very very masked.
And like in Japan, you can see how well (ahem) the mask paints there. . . in the number of COVID cases in strong expansion.
Meanwhile, outside this anti-Japanese echo chamber, much of the rest of the world admires Japan’s handling of the pandemic and looks to them for examples of how to effectively manage a pandemic in the long term.