No new cases and zero deaths. Lockdown lifted and everything is normal. You believe that crap?
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No new cases and zero deaths. Lockdown lifted and everything is normal. You believe that crap?
Zero cases, in this case, has more of a symbolic meaning,” said Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“It is telling people, ‘everything is safe, it is time to go back to work, it is time for business to go back to normal.’ ” He continued, “To show the outside world how effective the Chinese approach is and how it can provide a viable alternative to Western approaches.”
On March 10, more than two months after the lockdown started, Xi visited the city, a signal to local officials that ordinary life should soon resume. The next week, Wuhan reported zero new cases for the first time since the outbreak began.
But independent reporting has tested the claim. A March 23 report from Caixin, a Chinese outlet that has done groundbreaking coverage of the crisis, found that the virus may still be spreading in the city.
“There are still a few or a dozen asymptomatic people every day,” an unidentified official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was quoted by Caixin as saying. “It can’t be determined whether transmission has been completely cut off.”
China, unlike other countries, only counts patients with both a positive test and symptoms, meaning someone who is tested and is confirmed to have the virus but remains asymptomatic may be statistically invisible.
Mapping the virus spread
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that it saw classified Chinese government data suggesting more than 43,000 people in China had tested positive for the virus by the end of February without showing symptoms. If that figure is true, about a third of China’s cases were asymptomatic — a type of case that researchers around the world are still desperately trying to understand.
Wuhan says they lifted the lockdown because now no new cases and nobody is dying anymore.
And you believe what China is saying.
You mean China is lying about no new cases and everything is alright.
No deaths or cases.
Now they say its normal and everybody can travel freely.
Don't need to resort to name calling. Thats when you are mad. No new cases, no deaths. Everything is fine. Lockdown lifted.
Reporting from Wuhan in late January and February showed desperately overburdened hospitals where doctors were collapsing and patients were being treated in corridors.
On March 10, more than two months after the lockdown started, Xi visited the city, a signal to local officials that ordinary life should soon resume. The next week, Wuhan reported zero new cases for the first time since the outbreak began.
But independent reporting has tested the claim. A March 23 report from Caixin, a Chinese outlet that has done groundbreaking coverage of the crisis, found that the virus may still be spreading in the city.
“There are still a few or a dozen asymptomatic people every day,” an unidentified official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was quoted by Caixin as saying. “It can’t be determined whether transmission has been completely cut off.”
China, unlike other countries, only counts patients with both a positive test and symptoms, meaning someone who is tested and is confirmed to have the virus but remains asymptomatic may be statistically invisible.
Mapping the virus spread
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that it saw classified Chinese government data suggesting more than 43,000 people in China had tested positive for the virus by the end of February without showing symptoms. If that figure is true, about a third of China’s cases were asymptomatic — a type of case that researchers around the world are still desperately trying to understand.
Don't believe what China is saying when everything is normal.
the article clearly says no new cases since the outbreak after monitoring for a week or two? What is the problem with that? You believe there should be continuous new cases, in that case the outbreak never stops and will continue indefinitely? Again where does it say zero deaths? You do remember you said China made the claim that Wuhan has zero deaths.
There are questions, too, about the rate of testing. Another Hong Kong news outlet, RTHK, talked to people in Wuhan who claimed they were being denied testing in an attempt to keep case counts low.
Japan’s Kyodo news quoted an unnamed Wuhan doctor as saying testing was being suspended in the wake of Xi’s visit to shore up the premise that the battle has been won.
The Washington Post has not independently confirmed these accounts, but the strategies they describe — keeping case counts low, withholding data — are consistent with earlier efforts.
A Post account of the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan showed how secrecy and censorship fueled the virus’s spread across China and around the world. In January, local officials stopped recording new cases ahead of a Communist Party conclave in Hubei province. China also failed to share critical data with the World Health Organization.
By putting a positive spin on data from Wuhan, local officials are probably trying to heed Xi’s call to get the economy moving.
China is struggling to “find a balance between fighting the virus and killing the economy,” said Dali Yang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Chicago.
Japan’s Kyodo news quoted an unnamed Wuhan doctor as saying testing was being suspended in the wake of Xi’s visit to shore up the premise that the battle has been won.
The Washington Post has not independently confirmed these accounts, but the strategies they describe — keeping case counts low, withholding data — are consistent with earlier efforts.
A Post account of the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan showed how secrecy and censorship fueled the virus’s spread across China and around the world. In January, local officials stopped recording new cases ahead of a Communist Party conclave in Hubei province. China also failed to share critical data with the World Health Organization.
By putting a positive spin on data from Wuhan, local officials are probably trying to heed Xi’s call to get the economy moving.
China is struggling to “find a balance between fighting the virus and killing the economy,” said Dali Yang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Chicago.
Japan’s Kyodo news quoted an unnamed Wuhan doctor as saying testing was being suspended in the wake of Xi’s visit to shore up the premise that the battle has been won.
The Washington Post has not independently confirmed these accounts, but the strategies they describe — keeping case counts low, withholding data — are consistent with earlier efforts.
A Post account of the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan showed how secrecy and censorship fueled the virus’s spread across China and around the world. In January, local officials stopped recording new cases ahead of a Communist Party conclave in Hubei province. China also failed to share critical data with the World Health Organization.
By putting a positive spin on data from Wuhan, local officials are probably trying to heed Xi’s call to get the economy moving.
China is struggling to “find a balance between fighting the virus and killing the economy,” said Dali Yang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Chicago.
There are questions, too, about the rate of testing. Another Hong Kong news outlet, RTHK, talked to people in Wuhan who claimed they were being denied testing in an attempt to keep case counts low.
Japan’s Kyodo news quoted an unnamed Wuhan doctor as saying testing was being suspended in the wake of Xi’s visit to shore up the premise that the battle has been won.
The Washington Post has not independently confirmed these accounts, but the strategies they describe — keeping case counts low, withholding data — are consistent with earlier efforts.
A Post account of the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan showed how secrecy and censorship fueled the virus’s spread across China and around the world. In January, local officials stopped recording new cases ahead of a Communist Party conclave in Hubei province. China also failed to share critical data with the World Health Organization.
By putting a positive spin on data from Wuhan, local officials are probably trying to heed Xi’s call to get the economy moving.
China is struggling to “find a balance between fighting the virus and killing the economy,” said Dali Yang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Chicago.
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