Authorities in China are trying to calm public anger over the death of a 3-year-old child who died after being held in an anti-virus quarantine home.
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A 10-year-old boy died in the southwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou on Friday after inhaling toxic fumes from a faulty gas heater, state media said.
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His father accused health workers who were enforcing the closure of the compound of refusing to help and tried to prevent him from rushing his son to the hospital.
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The father’s post on social media prompted an angry backlash against the Communist Party’s “Zero Coronavirus” strategy that has confined families to cramped apartments for weeks at a time to combat the outbreak
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A quarantine system “protects life and health, not confronts those who need to be rescued with obstacles”, a post on the popular Sina Weibo social media service wrote.
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People living in the Xinjiang region of China have been forbidden to leave their homes since mid-August.
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The death of the 9-year-old boy in the Chinese capital came after many similar incidents during the New Year’s celebrations.He was taken to hospital but died there.
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Zhang Weiwen is the mayor of Lanzhou city in northwest China’s Gansu Province.The government has promised to learn from the painful lessons of this accident.
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A leading newspaper tried to put to rest any hope for a quick easing of COVID-19 by saying “Zero COVID” was working and quoting health experts who said it would have to stay in place
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The National Health Commission said this week that China needs to control outbreaks “with the minimum scale affected and the shortest time and lowest cost possible,” according to a Global Times report published by the ruling party newspaper People’s Daily.
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The central government ordered the local governments of China’s southeastern coast to close off a southern region as the Wenzhou virus swept through last week, killing dozens of people.
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Authorities in Zhengzhou are focused on “ending the epidemic” and “restoring order to production and life,” says the city government’s deputy secretary-general, Li Huifang.