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The former epicenter of the crown crisis is shaken by new cases of Covid 19. But the Chinese government still wants to announce the “victory over the virus.”
Students in Wuhan are monitored with thermal cameras.
The severity of the Chinese government’s take on the risk of a second wave of infection has been indisputable since Monday at the latest: after only six residents of an apartment block in Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus, Local authorities now want each of the eleven million residents the first in ten days. Test the Covid-19 epicenter. Without a doubt, this is also a demonstration of the regime’s power in Beijing: after all, many countries around the world complain about the lack of test kits these days. “We should not be careless or lax,” the Wuhan Changjiang newspaper quoted a cadre of the local party as saying.
Virus attacks again late
After a month without new cases, the virus is now back in the capital of Hubei province: An 89-year-old man had already shown symptoms of fever in mid-March, but then recovered. Less than two months later, it was positive. According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control, there have been several such cases in Wuhan in which the virus has reappeared with long delay. The other five infected live in the same residential area that President Xi Jinping visited on his trip to Wuhan in March.
Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Wuhan on March 10, 2020. (Image: Keystone)
Upcoming mass testing in Wuhan should be given priority to at-risk groups such as the elderly or migrant workers in narrow dwellings. Testing costs are borne by the state. The mass test is not the only measure that the authorities have ordered. The local government immediately shot the cadre of the party responsible for the residential district. An example should be made about it.
Opening of “Disney Land” as proof of victory
Even if seven provinces have reported new infections in the past two weeks, there is no second wave of infection to speak of. The number of new infections is very low. However, the city of Shulan, in northeast China, was declared a high-risk area after several new cases, the only one in the country at the moment. With some exceptions, the 670000 inhabitants of Shulan were sent to quarantines, schools and closed leisure centers.
The strict measures taken by the authorities have a simple reason: in a few days, the National People’s Congress will take place in Beijing, one of the most important events in the country, in which around 3,000 politicians and many thousands more businessmen and journalists they will go to the capital from all the provinces. At the flagship event, the Communist Party will announce victory over the virus and focus on boosting the economy. The outbreak of a second wave should be avoided at all costs. State media on Monday celebrated the reopening of the “Disney Land” amusement park in Shanghai as evidence of recovered normalcy.
