Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for measures to “effectively protect people’s lives” as his country grapples with an outbreak of Covid-19 infections, state television reported.
This is the first public comment from the Beijing strongman since the sudden abandonment at the beginning of December of the strict anti-Covid measures, in force since 2020. Three years after the appearance of the first cases of coronavirus in Wuhan (center), the The country is facing an explosion of cases.
Many hospitals are overwhelmed, pharmacies report shortages of fever medicine, while many crematoriums interviewed by AFP reported an unusually high influx of bodies to be cremated.
Six official deaths
“The prevention and control of Covid-19 in China faces a new situation and new tasks,” Xi Jinping was quoted as saying by state television CCTV.
“We must carry out a more specific patriotic health campaign[…]and build a solid bulwark against the epidemic,” Xi Jinping added, without elaborating.[)etbâtirunrempartsolidecontrel’epidémie”aajoutéXiJinpingsansplusdeprecisions[)etbâtirunrempartsolidecontrel’épidémie”aajoutéXiJinpingsansplusdeprécisions
China has only officially announced six covid deaths since restrictions were lifted.
A very undervalued assessment according to many experts, while a large part of the elderly in China are not vaccinated against Covid.
Source: BFM TV
