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BEIJING: China has passed an “extraordinary and historic test” with its control of the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday (September 8) in a triumphant awards ceremony for fitness professionals, decorated with trumpets and applause.
The country’s propaganda device praised China’s reaction to COVID-19, reformulating the public aptitude crisis as one of the agility and organization of communist leaders.
Xi gave gold medals to 4 medical “heroes” in front of a bunch of delegates cheering on Tuesday, all dressed in masks and pins of remarkably giant red flowers.
“We passed a historical and ordinary test,” Mr. Xi praised the country for a “heroic struggle” against the disease.
“We temporarily achieved the initial good fortune in the popular war against the coronavirus. We are the world leaders in economic recovery and in the fight against COVID-19. “
China has been scrutinyd for its reaction to the virus, with the United States and Australia making opposing accusations to Beijing that it was hiding the origins and severity of the virus.
Defying accusations from the United States and elsewhere that initial mistakes allowed the coronavirus pandemic to spread faster, Xi said China has acted with brazenness and transparency and taken decisive action that has saved lives.
“China has helped save the lives of tens of millions of people around the world through its practical actions, making known China’s honest preference for building a long-term network not unusual for humanity,” he said.
Tuesday’s luxurious rite in the Great Hall of the People began with a minute’s silence for those who lost their lives to the epidemic.
Among the four winners, Zhong Nanshan, 83, the country’s leading medical expert who emerged as the face of China’s fight against contagion.
She won china’s national medal through Xi, who placed it around Zhong’s neck.
“We will enroll in theArray . . . medical personnel from around the world to continue combat to hint at the origins of the virus,” Zhong said.
Beijing has insisted that the source of the virus is still unknown, which for the first time gave the impression that last year it occurred in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Three others earned the honorary name “Heroes of the People”: biochemist Chen Wei, director of a Wuhan hospital and a 72-year-old man in classical Chinese medicine.
Some delegates were mourning a series of speeches.
ThereArray, however, is not mentioned to whistleblower Li Wenliang, who was one of the first to be silenced for sounding the alarm about the epidemic and then died of the disease.
The local government of Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus was first identified, has been accused of a cover-up that delayed the country’s emergency reaction for at least two weeks.
But as infections spread around the world as they slow down nationally, Beijing is more assertive, resilient to global research into the origins of the epidemic, and says its immediate movements have helped buy time for other countries to prepare.
Prior to the ceremony, the public television channel CCTV showed a video montage of Wuhan at the height of the epidemic with enthusiastic music, adding photographs of the medical body of workers in dangerous tissue covering fabrics and crowded hospitals.
According to official figures, there were 4,634 deaths in China due to COVID-19. The government has largely contained the epidemic through serious restrictions and restrictions.
State media highlighted Xi in the containment of the coronavirus in China.
Official news firm Xinhua said Tuesday in a lengthy special report that Xi had worked tirelessly since January and had even suffered sleepless nights while “taking on the incredibly complicated project of fighting the epidemic. “
Beijing has tried to focus on China’s good luck in defeating the virus, which in its origins.
During a government to Wuhan last week, hounds were shown the reopening of schools and tourist sites, but were not allowed to report from Huanan Seafood Market, where the outbreak is believed to have originated.
“The narrative of conversion is facilitated by the good fortune of the government in controlling propagation and has been good at home, even if it is not as good around the world as you would like,” said Yanzhong Huang, council principal investigator. foreign affairs, an American panel of experts.
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