China handled Covid-19 better than one could have imagined: Foreign affairs expert Fareed Zakaria

[beijingwalker]

China handled Covid-19 better than one could have imagined: Foreign affairs expert Fareed Zakaria


India Today
New Delhi
April 3, 2020
UPDATED: April 3, 2020 20:28 IST

Fareed Zakaria, leading foreign affairs expert in the United States (File photo)


China has handled the coronavirus pandemic better than one could have imagined, said Fareed Zakaria, leading foreign affairs expert in the United States, in exclusive interview on Friday.

A total of 81,620 people have been infected with Covid-19 in Mainland China, while the death toll is at 3,322. The number of cases has topped 1 million globally, with at least 52,000 deaths.

"If the world manages to stay still for 14 days, the novel cronavirus will die," Fareed Zakaria said while speaking to India Today TV's Rahul Kanwal.

Zakaria said that theoritacally it was posisble as the virus will not be able to transmit further, however, since it was not a practical solution, "everybody should strife to come as close to it as possible".

"If you look at the countries where they have suceeded [in arresting coronavirus outbreak] so far, like South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and even China, there is a real sense that you have to stop the process of transmission," Fareed Zakaria said, adding that the process can be stopped only if each person adopts the attitude that they have to stop it.

"You may think you are fine but you may spread to someone who is not fine," the analyst said.

Fareed Zakaria also said US President Donald Trump did not see coronavirus as a big problem for a very long time. He said that Donald Trump is likely to face an economic shock.

He added that the United States, that was on the forefront while fighting earlier global health crisis such as ebola, swine flu, seems to be completely absent in the present Covid-19 crisis.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/fareed-zakaria-china-handled-coronavirus-1663028-2020-04-03

 

[tower9]

We have to split up China's response into two stages.

The first stage was the discovery and cover up by the local government. Also, the flagrant lies issued by the local government and repeated by the WHO that the virus was not transmitted between human beings. These first few weeks proved to be fatal as infections exploded.

The second stage was when the central government took over, that was after January 20th and they locked down all of Wuhan and Hubei province. That response was competent, fast and effective.

However, the first stage revealed a deep level of incompetence, corruption and lack of ethics that is common in Chinese political and business culture. This flagrant lying. And it has endangered the whole world. If the local governors were competent, they could've isolated the virus in the beginning stages and perhaps at most, only a few thousand would've been infected before the virus died off. But now the entire world is burning because of the deceit and lies of the local government.

 

[pothead]

CCP pimps white-washing the genocide.
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[Rollno21]

The virus started in china and spread all over the world killing more than 1000 a say and someone thinks China handled it better.

You guys should remember this virus was even called China virus by president trump.

 

[beijingwalker]

Reported by Indian media from an US celebrity.