Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
News on disease control, CCP, U.S., Solomon Islands, Myanmar
News (1)
"Dynamic clearing" equals "zero infection" and "city-wide lockdown"? Wu Zunyou issued a document to clarify the misunderstanding of "dynamic clearing"
Editor : Fang Jialiang, China News Network / https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2022/04-19/9732853.shtml / Image of "dynamic clearing", i.e. an act of clearing infected people at the social level in the location of the epidemic : Video Screenshot
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China CDC, posted a long article on social platforms at night off 18 April 2022, clarifying in detail the misunderstandings about the "dynamic clearing" measure. He believes that "dynamic clearing" does not mean "zero infection" or "zero-covid", nor does it mean that "city-wide lockdown" and "all staff nucleic acid testing" are necessary.
Wu Zunyou said that "dynamic clearing" does not pursue "zero infection", but to achieve the elimination of an epidemic, it also requires timely interruption of transmission at the location of the epidemic, and no new infections occur. In other words, China is not required to be free of viral infections at a certain moment but for every outbreak that occurs, it is required to be extinguished in a relatively short period of time.
He believes that "dynamic clearing" emphasizes the clearing of infected people at the social level, and does not require that there are no infected people in the location of the epidemic. This means that there are no infected people among the people who move freely in society, even if there are a certain number of people under quarantine management. It does not matter if the infected person is in isolation and will not spread the virus to the society.
Wu Zunyou said that some people equate the measures of dynamic clearing with closure and control measures. When they mention "dynamic clearing", they think of "city-wide lockdown and control". The measures taken by "dynamic clearing" depend on the stage of the outbreak. If it is discovered early, it is only necessary to isolate and treat the patients, and isolate and observe the close contacts to achieve clearing.
He said, for example, that there have been 12 covid epidemics in Shanghai in the past two years, and the maximum number of cases in each epidemic was controlled without exceeding 25 cases. Containment and control measures are only used when the epidemic is detected late, or when decisive measures have not been taken to control it in time, and there has been more community transmission.
As for the nucleic acid testing of all staff, Wu Zunyou believes that as long as the epidemic is detected early, the transmission chain is clear, and close contacts are found along the transmission chain, there is no need to conduct nucleic acid screening for all staff. Nucleic acid screening measures for all staff are only used when the epidemic is detected late, or when decisive measures have not been taken to control it in time, and there has been more community transmission and the chain of transmission is unclear.
In addition, Wu Zunyou also explained whether the "dynamic clearing" policy affects economic development. He said that in fact, only "dynamic clearing" can escort economic construction to the greatest extent.
Wu Zunyou believes that if the epidemic is found in the first generation, controlled in the first generation, and eliminated in the first generation, it will have no impact on economic development, and can only provide a safe environment. He also believes that the second or third generation of the epidemic has no impact on economic development.
Wu Zunyou said, "If the development of the epidemic situation is relatively severe, a wider range of nucleic acid screening, closure and control measures should be taken. The "dynamic clearing" or zero-covid strategy does have a certain impact on economic development but he also said that according to the mathematical model and preliminary analysis by experts, the impact of the "dynamic clearing" strategy on the local GDP is only half of the economic impact of the non-dynamic clearing strategy.
News (2) to (10) / https://www.chinanews.com.cn/shipin/spfts/20220419/3944.shtml
News (2)
Seven new deaths from the Shanghai epidemic on 18 April 2022
From 0 to 24:00 on 18 April 2022, Shanghai added 3,084 new confirmed local covid cases and 17,332 asymptomatic infections, and 7 new deaths. At 10 am on 19 April, the Shanghai Municipal Government Information Office held the 158th press conference on Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control work to introduce the latest situation of epidemic prevention and control.
As of 12 am on 19 April 2022, there were 21 severe patients receiving treatment in designated medical institutions. On 18 April, there were 7 new deaths, ranging in age from 60 to 101 years old, with serious underlying diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cerebral infarction sequelae, and cerebral hemorrhage. None of them had received the covi vaccine. The above 7 patients' condition worsened after admission, and their rescue invalid, and the direct causes of the deaths were caused by the underlying diseases.
News (3)
23,286 cases discharged from Shanghai square cabin hospital
Image : Web Screenshot
On 18 April 2022, 1,211 confirmed cases in Shanghai were discharged from hospitals, and 22,075 cases of asymptomatic infections were released from centralized isolation and medical observation. They are returning to their places of residence for health monitoring. Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, pointed out that a total of 23,286 cases were discharged from the square cabin hospital on 18 April, which exceeded the number of new positive infections, and more and more people were discharged from the hospital and are back to work.
News (4)
307,870 people tested negative
At 9 am on 19 April, a total of 368,524 close contacts in Shanghai have been investigated and controlled. Among them, 307,870 people have negative nucleic acid test results, and the rest are being tested.
News (5)
More than 37 million nucleic acid screenings
Wu Qing, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, gave a briefing on the recent nucleic acid screening work in Shanghai. Since the outbreak of the current round of the epidemic, Shanghai has organized and implemented multiple rounds of nucleic acid screening work under the guidance of the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism. With the understanding, support and cooperation of the general public, more than 37 million nucleic acid screenings have been completed since 15 April.
News (6)
New "dynamic clearing" measures adopted from 19 April 2022, past the zero-covid deadline of 20 April 2022
Starting from 19 April 2022, Shanghai will also carry out nucleic acid screening in the closed and controlled areas for three consecutive days, and will conduct nucleic acid screening in the closed and controlled areas at the same time on 20 April 2022.
In the process of organizing nucleic acid screening, firstly, on the basis of scientific flow adjustment and strict control measures, and based on the results of staged screening, three areas of "sealing control, control and prevention" were divided, and a combined method of "Antigen Rapid Test + nucleic acid testing" was adopted. The screening strategy improves the efficiency and quality of screening, and also provides important support for early detection of positive infections, timely treatment, and interruption of the spread of the covi variant. At the same time, residents are guided to strictly abide by the "2 m-apart distance", wear masks, and not communicate during the screening process to avoid cross-infection.
News (7)
Faith in completing nucleic acid testing and sampling
In terms of sampling power, each district is required to conduct grid screening to find out the actual population in the screening area, and reasonably allocate sampling medical staff. Taking 16 April 2022 as an example, Shanghai has invested nearly 25,000 sampling medical staff, including more than 12,000 supporting medical staff from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other sister provinces and cities to help Shanghai take samples. The support and assistance of our sister provinces and cities, as well as the joint efforts of the city's sampling medical staff and grassroots workers, will enable us to complete the established tasks on time and in quantity during the large-scale nucleic acid screening process in the past few days.
Wu Qing, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, gave a briefing on the layout of Shanghai nucleic acid testing sampling points. Wu Qing said that this work has actually been in the process of advancing recently. After many studies and organization, Shanghai is currently planning to rationally plan the layout of nucleic acid sampling points based on the population density and functional orientation of the region. There are mainly three types of settings, one is a fixed sampling point, one is a mobile sampling point, and the other is a convenient sampling point. The three types of sampling points are combined to coordinate the setting of normalized sampling points. The fixed sampling points are mainly set up by about 200 medical institutions in Shanghai.
News (8)
More nucleic acid sampling points to be set up in Shanghai
The convenient sampling points are mainly set up by means of book stands and other forms, and the mobile sampling points are mainly set up by means of forms such as breakfast carts, including setting up sampling cabins, mobile sampling vehicles, etc., to improve mobility and mobility. Some new sampling requirements provide quick response services. The setting of some sampling points such as fixed and convenient flow, etc., will be mainly located in residential areas, transportation stations, including subway entrances, bus stops, airports, ports, bus stations, etc., as well as office areas, including CBD, parks, surrounding places such as large enterprises, schools, large supermarkets, pharmacies, etc., as well as some large construction sites, where there are lots of people.
Try to choose an open, well-ventilated, relatively independent site to set up. For the testing needs of ensuring supply and returning to work, this is also what the city urgently needs. In the recent stage, it is important to set up a batch of sampling points for the relevant personnel to serve and maintain the normal operation of the city. In the follow-up, according to the principle that all inspections should be carried out in a specific period, and that they are willing to carry out inspections at ordinary times, the number of settings will be dynamically adjusted, so that the settings of sampling points will be the same as the one. Different levels of prevention and control measures can thus be matched.
News (9)
New gas membrane laboratories, mobile nucleic acid detection vehicles deployed
In terms of viral detection strength, on the one hand, Shanghai frontline medical workers taps their own potential, and effectively enhancing nucleic acid detection capabilities through rapid new gas membrane laboratories, mobile nucleic acid detection vehicles, etc.; The testing capacity has been further enhanced by assisting construction in this city and sending samples to sister cities.
At present, Shanghai has a maximum detection capacity of nearly 5 million tubes per day. In addition, more than 2,000 sample transfer vehicles have been deployed to speed up sample transfer. At the same time, the information system for nucleic acid screening has been continuously improved to give full play to the functions of data mining and analysis, and to realize the overall allocation and real-time scheduling of screening resources.
News (10)
Multiple measures to ensure the health and safety of nearly 20,000 food delivery riders from 19 April 2022
Zhou Lan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, explained how to strengthen the supervision of nucleic acid testing of express riders. Zhou Lan said that riders on e-commerce platforms such as food delivery are an important force in ensuring the supply of living materials in Shanghai. Recently, e-commerce platforms have actively organized qualified riders to return to work. Currently, the number of riders on duty has reached nearly 20,000. On 18 April 2022, the number of delivery orders on major e-commerce platforms has reached 2.2 million orders, an increase of 1 million orders in 10 days. The epidemic prevention management of riders is also one of the topics that citizens are concerned about recently.
In order to ensure the health and safety of the riders and the safety of delivery, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Shanghai Postal Administration have established a list of companies for express delivery companies on e-commerce platforms and a list of delivery personnel. Starting from 19 April 2022, the dynamic accompanying code will be used for identity verification and registration of nucleic acid test in the nucleic acid test of riders, replacing the nucleic acid test code that can be used offline.
In addition, relying on the technology platform of the Shanghai Big Data Center, an electronic pass for delivery and delivery personnel will be issued according to the white list of enterprises and personnel, and the 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate and green health code will be displayed in this electronic pass and other information, as a necessary condition and pass for delivery personnel to take up their posts. Each district will also actively manage and guarantee services for local delivery and delivery personnel, set up a dedicated channel for free nucleic acid testing, and issue nucleic acid testing reports in priority to provide convenience for riders to take up their jobs.
News (11) to (17) / Reporter : Li Jinfeng / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/19/a103404172.html
News (11)
At least 30 places in China are "locked". Beijing: On 1 May do not go out unless necessary
Image : On 18 April 2022, people in a controlled area in Shanghai prepare to board a bus to pick up quarantined people. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
The epidemic situation in mainland China continues to heat up. Since March, at least 30 places and hundreds of millions of people are still "under lockdown". The latest requirement of Beijing is that citizens do not leave Beijing for the "May 1st" holiday unless it is necessary.
On 18 April 2022, Beijing officially issued a notice on the prevention and control of the epidemic during the May 1st holiday, requiring citizens to "stay out of Beijing unless it is necessary" to prevent the epidemic risk of "self-driving tours" and "senior groups", and stop temporarily resuming inter-provincial team travel in and out of Beijing, continue to suspend inbound and outbound group travel and "air ticket plus hotel" business.
The notice requires that all kinds of large-scale events, such as theatrical performances, sales promotions, sports events, etc., "not be held unless necessary." The May Day holiday is from 30 April to 4 May, a total of 5 days.
News (12)
Shaoyang under epidemic control, lockdown
On the same day, Shaoyang, Hunan informed that from 12 am on 19 April, the local area will temporarily control the entire city of the main urban area, and all staff will be tested for nucleic acid; all residents in the closed and controlled areas will not be allowed to go out. The distribution of daily necessities for residents in the closed area; each household in the control area can send a family member to go out to purchase necessities of life once every 2 days.
In the main urban area of Shaoyang, passenger lines and urban public transportation are suspended, and taxis and online car-hailing vehicles are not allowed to operate; road traffic control is implemented throughout the main urban area, and other motor vehicles are prohibited from running on the road except for military and police vehicles, fire engines, and ambulances. All colleges and universities are closed for management, and all primary and secondary schools, including all kinds of kindergartens, are closed. All shops, shops, restaurants and restaurants in Shuangqing District will be closed.
The resident population of Shaoyang, Hunan is 6.56 million.
News (13)
Caixin: On 17 April, 22 places in China under closure management
Caixin.com reported on the 18th that according to incomplete statistics, as of 17 April, a total of 22 cities or regions across the country were being closed for management.
These cities or regions include Wuhu and Lu'an in Anhui, Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang, Jilin City, Liaoyuan, Siping and Baicheng in Jilin Province, Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu, Xining in Qinghai, and Yongcheng in Henan, which are 10 cities with a population of more than one million. The total resident population of these cities is about 23.47 million. The latest news indicates that after the closure of Xining on 14 April, the time has been extended to 24:00 on April 22.
Other places include Songyuan in Jilin, Qingxu County in Shanxi, Taicang City in Jiangsu, Kunshan Development Zone and Huaqiao Economic Development Zone, Haihe Town, Baohua Town, Dongxing City in Guangxi, Qindong Town in Shaanxi, Fengdong in Xianyang New District, Xi'an Xincheng, Anhui Tianchang City, Huoqiu County, Henan Huaibin County Maji Town, Xinli Town and other areas. The total affected population is about 29.85 million.
News (14)
NTD: 30 places in China are "locked"
In addition to these 22 places, and in Shaoyang, Hunan, there are another 7 places that are still blocked. NTD reporters inquired and calculated that the combined population of these 30 places has exceeded 100 million.
For example, from 6 am on 19 April, Lubei District, Lunan District, Fengnan District, Kaiping District, and Yutian County of Tangshan, Hebei Province will be closed and controlled. All areas in Wei County, Handan, Hebei, will be closed and controlled from 12 am on the 19th, tentatively scheduled for 3 days.
Shanghai is still under lockdown, with a population of about 24.87 million. On 16 April, Xi'an announced a temporary closure of the city for 4 days. People in the city's communities and units do not go out unless necessary. There are about 12.95 million people in Xi'an.
News (15)
Taiyuan only opens urban areas for entrance
Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi Province, announced earlier that since 5 am on 13 April, all six urban areas of Taiyuan have been closed, and all urban areas can only be entered. There are 5.3 million people in Taiyuan.
News (16)
Harbin's district closed
Shuangcheng District of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province is closed for management from 12 am on 15 April. The resident population of Shuangcheng District is 630,000.
News (17)
Social dynamic clearing in Changchun
In Changchun, Jilin Province, although it is said to be unblocked, the official also clearly stated that the social dynamic clearing does not mean "zero infection", and it does not mean that the "unblocking" can be "unblocked" immediately. The Central News Agency reported earlier that local people said that they still could not go out of the gates of their communities. Changchun has a population of 9.06 million.
News (18)
Fang Lue Astro's Shanghai song "New Slave" is hot. Analysis: Modern Exodus will be staged
Reporters : Huang Liangjian and Zhang Dongxu / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/18/a103403836.html / Image : Video Screenshot
The new song "New Slave" composed by a young rapper in Shanghai has been popular on the Internet, pointing out the chaos of the CCP's extreme epidemic prevention. Some analysts believe that China may stage a contemporary version of "Exodus".
Shanghai rapper Fang Lue Astro sang, "When people who are not sick are kept at home and treated as patients, when people who are really sick can't step into the door of the hospital. When obedience to orders becomes a reason to hurt people, when they turned into walking corpses they have been drained of their souls. Despising life, their expressions are very calm, and they forget in a blink of an eye that they are also sick, and they clamour for self-confidence."
The popular song "New Slave" on the Internet was written by Fang Lue. The sharp lyrics pointed out the various chaos of the authorities' extreme epidemic prevention. Fang Lue said that seeing the passing of his life and his inability to do anything made him feel deeply sad; "This all comes from my love for all of this." Writing songs, "it is not an unfounded criticism and division", but I hope everyone will reflect on it and solve the problem".
Shanghai rapper Fang Lue Astro sang, "When freedom and ideological will are imprisoned by power, when life and dignity are regarded as dung by them." "The air smells of rotting souls, but animals that claim to be superior are crueler than animals, than animals. Perhaps the most terrible thing about the virus is that people cannibalize people, the superior’s order (harmony and harmony) is greater than the sky, and everything else is on one side, except for this power in the hand, other powers should not be seen.”
Recently, an article that was once deleted by the CCP was widely circulated on the Internet, "The tolerance of Shanghai people has reached the limit." Li Zhide, a senior cross-strait reporter from Taiwan, shared this article on the social platform on the 15th, and pointed out that "now what people in Shanghai are suffering from." The pain is not that the ruler is suddenly incompetent, cruel, paralyzed or degraded. On the contrary, the ruler has always been like this.” Those who bear this side of the system include Uyghurs, Tibetans, farmers, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. Li Zhide believes that we can take the opportunity to think about what kind of moral obligations the people under the autocratic system have to civilization and the next generation?
On 14 April, in an international community in Zhangjiang Town, Pudong New Area, the authorities forced more than a dozen buildings to be used as isolation points. Residents protested and were severely beaten by the authorities. We-media Zhang Tianliang analyzed on the 16th that the CCP’s brutality frequently shows the lower limit, which has also raised questions. Why is it not government buildings, government officials and so-called “serving the people” CCP members’ houses?
We-media current affairs commentator Zhang Tianliang conclude: "So the common people are both leeks and prisoners. Not just in Shanghai. There are many, many people in the country. I think after the epidemic, they may start to 'exit Egypt', that is, to leave the CCP as slaves. Deprivation, even abuse at will, such a one is like the Jewish 'Exodus'. And I think multinational companies will also start exodus. I say this is the contemporary version of 'Exodus'."
News (19) to (20) / Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/19/a103404178.html
News (19)
Two rap songs on the chaotic epidemic have become popular on the Internet
Image : On 17 April 2022, residents of a closed community in Shanghai are doing nucleic acid sampling. (Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, two songs mocking the CCP "New Slave" and "You Liar" have become popular on the Internet. "New Slave" written by a Shanghai singer pointed out the chaos of the CCP's extreme epidemic prevention, while the old song "You Liar" ridiculed CCTV's "News Network" for a long time.
The lyrics of Shanghai youth singer Fang Lue Astro's original "New Slave" read: "When people who are not sick are kept at home and treated as patients, when people who are really sick can't step into the door of the hospital, when they change because of obeying orders. It became a reason to hurt people, when they turned into walking corpses they have been drained of their souls. Despising life, their expressions are very calm, and they forget in a blink of an eye that they are also sick, and they clamour for self-confidence." (click to watch the video)
The song resonated with many who witnessed the chaos in Shanghai's lockdown, and it went viral on social media. However, although "New Slave" was sung in the hearts of many people, it stepped on the painful foot of the CCP's epidemic prevention.
On 16 April, Fang Lue's YouTube channel took down the song and replaced it with a silent video of "One Note." The statement read, "During this time, the song "New Slave" has gained a little attention in different places. Thank you for watching and commenting. I feel sincerely apprehensive."
Fang Lue said that his original intention was by no means unfounded criticism and division. He has always loved the country and the people, "believing in the fundamental necessity of its unity and stability".
Many netizens sighed: "It is estimated that I was invited to drink tea." "I knew it would be like this when I was drunk. The song was written very well, so I deleted it." "I hope to continue to publish it on YouTube, not domestically. It's very dangerous." "Come on, brother! I'm also a Shanghainese studying abroad, and I'm really worried about this situation now, and I'm very powerless."
Wu Sezhi, deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Taoist Tactics Association, told Radio Free Asia, "Although the Chinese people or the people of Shanghai have such dissatisfaction, it is not Xi Jinping or Xi Jinping's way of arguing about the central government or sarcasm or high-level gangsters or what the CCP likes to see.” Because of these pain points that completely step on the CCP, the CCP has tightened its control over speech and digital channels.
In addition to "New Slave", which directly pointed to the chaos in Shanghai's epidemic prevention, the lyrics of another rapper Gao Ya's "You Liar", debut in 2017, has recently become popular on the Internet.
"You Liar" satirizes the "News Network" broadcast by the CCP media CCTV every night at 7 pm for fabricating fake news and fooling the Chinese people for a long time.
The lyrics read: "You XX liar, you talk nonsense every night; you XX liar, you make up every night; you XX liar, you cheat on me every day; you XX liar, appear at 7 at night point."
"You are bragging and writing, and you are still on time every day. At 7 pm, you still occupy Lao Tzu's TV, 'Good evening, audience friends', Lao Tzu is in a bad mood." (Click to watch the video)
News (20)
CCTV news fraud exposed
Just as the song "You Liar" became popular, CCTV news fraud was once again exposed. CCTV News Network reported that "Shanghai citizens have sufficient supplies of daily necessities". As of 15 April, more than 1,000 key supermarkets and stores in Shanghai have resumed business.
However, a netizen named "Photographer Fei Diwen" posted in a circle of friends to reveal that the "first three shots" in "News Network" were on March 31, that is, before Shanghai was closed, when he was in Yangpu District, Shanghai. The shots were taken at RT-Mart.
He added that these shots were taken for CCTV's "Economic Half Hour". "It is estimated that CCTV has run out of material, and there are no cameras available in Shanghai."
Image : Screenshot of Weibo
In addition, CCTV reported on 16 April, "According to incomplete statistics, since 29 March, a total of 371,000 'vegetable packs' have been shipped from Yancheng to Shanghai, and a total of 2,500 vegetables, eggs, rice and other agricultural and sideline products have been sold to Shanghai. More than 10,000 tons of food shipped to Shanghai is '25 million tons'."
Image : Screenshot of Weibo
There are about 26 million people in Shanghai. According to official media reports, each Shanghainese receives at least one meal. Netizens ridiculed: "Have you reached the point where you can't blow your mind?" "Who has received a ton?"
Amid the sarcasm of netizens, CCTV's official website and other reprinted official media deleted the passage. However, many reports reprinted by the mainland media can still see the original text.
Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator based in the United States, told NTDTV that the ultimate result of the CCP's constant fraud is to lose people's hearts.
News (21) to (27) / Editor : Li Hong / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/19/a103404153.html
News (21)
Lianhua Qingwen was choked in Shanghai, and the official media rarely made a bottom
Image : It is rumoured that Lianhua Qingwen Capsule can cure covid patients in overseas Chinese circles. However, the effectiveness of the product has been questioned by the Chinese and Western medical circles. (Epoch Times)
The closure of the city in Shanghai caused serious secondary disasters. A large number of residents were short of medicines, but received multiple boxes of Lianhua Qingwen. The official media also supported Lianhua Qingwen. However, the medicinal properties of Lianhua Qingwen were criticized by the industry; Yiling Pharmaceutical, which produced this medicine, was also bottomed out, and its stock price fell by the limit. The controversy surrounding Lianhua Qingwen has attracted attention.
Shanghai, with a population of 26 million, has been in full lockdown for nearly 20 days, and people's grievances are boiling. Professor Luo Shuhua of Fudan University described it as "sounds of urgency, help, and help. ". Just when many people in Shanghai are worried about being hungry and having trouble seeing a doctor, and they are posting online for help, they continue to receive the official "Lianhua Qingwen". Some netizens post that they have received many boxes of Lianhua Qingwen.
Image : Web Screenshot
Netizens ridiculed that the families lack food and vegetables, but there is no shortage of Lianhua Qingwen distributed by the epidemic prevention department many times.
Lianhua Qingwen is a Chinese patent medicine researched in China during the treatment of SARS. In April 2020, it was officially listed as a recommended drug for SARS-CoV-2. "Yiling Pharmaceutical" owns many invention patents and usage patents for this drug. However, the United States, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia and other countries prohibit the entry of Lianhua Qingwen.
News (22)
Yiling Pharmaceutical's stock price fell by the limit again, official media support Lianhua Qingwen questioned
On 18 April, V Guan’s financial report reported that Yiling Pharmaceutical, which produces Lianhua Qingwen, opened at a lower limit again, and it has dropped by the limit for two consecutive days.
This is caused by a controversy caused by Lianhua Qingwen since Shanghai was completely closed on 1 April.
Chinanews.com reported that on 3 April, Yiling Pharmaceutical donated Lianhua Qingwen worth 50 million yuan (RMB, the same below) and sent it from Hebei to Shanghai to help "local epidemic prevention and control." This is another emergency donation following the March 28 donation.
On 6 April, People's Daily Online reported in an article titled "WHO Approves the Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating COVID-19, and the Prevention and Treatment of Lianhua Qingwen Obtained a Reliable Basis". On 31 March, the World Health Organization released a report on the "WHO Expert Evaluation Meeting on Traditional Chinese Medicine in Fighting against Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia" on its official website.
The above report is accused of using the WHO's affirmation of traditional Chinese medicine to "transfer flowers to connect trees" to endorse Lianhua Qingwen of Yiling Pharmaceutical. During the same period, the share price of Yiling Pharmaceutical soared.
On 13 April 2022, Wang Sicong, a well-known Chinese billionaire, reposted a video on Sina Weibo questioning, "WHO 'recommended' Lianhua Qingwen, who told you?" He meant Yiling Pharmaceutical should be checked.
Affected by the incident, V Guan Financial Report reported that on 15 April, Yiling Pharmaceutical's stock price fell by the limit and closed at 35.99 RMB per share.
On 16 April, the Sino-News Jingwei of Chinanews.com posted "Wang Sicong questioned behind Yiling Pharmaceuticals: Has WHO ever recommended Lianhua Qingwen?" He was said to have asked Yiling Pharmaceuticals, and got a response: "The company has never been on any occasion meant that WHO recommended Lianhua Qingwen'."
However, the Sino-News Jingwei article also stated that the WHO report mentioned that the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China) has approved the sale of three traditional Chinese medicines through a special approval process, and said that the State Food and Drug Administration will continue to optimize the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.
The article explained that the three traditional Chinese medicines mentioned by the WHO are from the so-called "three medicines and three prescriptions" proposed by Beijing to deal with the epidemic. Among them, Lianhua Qingwen granules and capsules are one of the "three medicines".
However, the WHO does not seem to mention Lianhua Qingwen explicitly. More importantly, can Lianhua Qingwen prevent the virus?
News (23)
Lianhua Qingwen cannot prevent covi
On 16 April 2022, the official account of "Dr. Cinnamon" with a medical professional background issued an article, "Don't eat Lianhua Qingwen to prevent SARS-CoV-2 (covi)." The article posed the question, "Why do you think "it shouldn't be like this"? Because unfortunately, Lianhua Qingwen cannot prevent covi. It is really unnecessary to distribute Lianhua Qingwen to healthy citizens.
According to the definition of disease prevention, under the current scientific conditions, three measures can be used to prevent the virus, the article said. First, physical blocking, wearing masks, etc.; second, inducing an immune response to reduce the infectivity of the virus released; third, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), pre-medication to prevent infection.
The article said that among the three known methods, even Lianhua Qingwen was not established and could not achieve the effect of preventing the virus. At present, the only drug approved for early prevention of infection in Western countries is a long-acting antibody combination, that is, direct injection of ready-made antibodies.
This article analyzes whether Lianhua Qingwen can prevent the virus from three dimensions: official, clinical, and drug research and development. The article believes that Lianhua Qingwen has not undergone a rigorous clinical trial process and cannot verify its actual effect in preventing or treating diseases.
The article said that even though two controlled studies in 2020 and 2021 pointed out that Lianhua Qingwen could reduce the probability of positive nucleic acid tests and improve symptoms, these two studies lacked a "blind control" (Lianhua Qingwen treatment group and only Lianhua Qingwen treatment group provide a control group of medical observations), whose conclusions have significant limitations.
The final conclusion of the article is that no effective evidence can be found to support "Lianhua Qingwen can prevent covi", and it may also bring side effects.
"Dr. Cinnamon" also lists the collaborators of the article, including Xie Wangshi, a master of pharmacology from Jinan University, Wang Xiaoyan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, and Wang Suna, deputy chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Military Medical University.
News (24)
Shanghai CCP newspaper warns the public Lianhua Qingwen is not preventive medicine for covi
In addition, Lianhua Qingwen was also choked in Shanghai. On 11 April,, Jiefang Daily, the official newspaper of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, once published an article warning Shanghai citizens "not to take medicine indiscriminately when you are not sick" and that Lianhua Qingwen "is not a preventive medicine for covi."
American medical expert Yang Jingduan told The Epoch Times that Lianhua Qingwen Granule is a traditional Chinese medicine prescription for respiratory infections, but the correct use of Chinese medicine prescription is based on each person's different constitution. If everyone eats it, it means using traditional Chinese medicine as Western medicine.
Jingduan Yang is the founder of the American Institute for Clinical Acupuncture and the Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine in Pennsylvania, USA.
News (25)
Actual clinical effect of Lianhua Qingwen on covid, which took 15 days to develop, is unclear
Yang Jingduan believes that the research time of Lianhua Qingwen is very short, and the actual clinical effect is not certain. Pharmaceutical companies think it is an opportunity to make money and exaggerate the publicity of its efficacy. So the drug itself is not a problem, the problem lies in the way, means and motivation of their promotion, which is the key to people's questioning.
From the beginning, Yiling Pharmaceutical Lianhua Qingwen became "the richest man in A-share academicians"
What is the background of Yiling Pharmaceutical, which produces Lianhua Qingwen? On 17 April7, China News Weekly, a subsidiary of China News Service, published an article titled "Yiling Pharmaceutical and its Lianhua Qingwen" to promote Yiling Pharmaceuticals, which also exposed some inside information about the pharmaceutical company.
The article said that the name of Yiling Pharmaceutical is related to the founder Wu Yiling. Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. was established in 1992. Its founder and chairman is Wu Yiling, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The owner of Yiling Pharmaceutical is attacking the industrialization of traditional Chinese medicine.
According to the company's 2021 semi-annual financial report disclosed in August 2021, it currently has 11 new patented drugs in the traditional Chinese medicine sector, covering cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, breathing, etc. Among them, Lianhua Qingwen Capsule has become the basic drug for the prevention and treatment of clinically related diseases.
However, the article said, from the development to the production of Lianhua Qingwen Capsules, Yiling Pharmaceutical "only took 15 days". In May 2004, the pharmaceutical company obtained the marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration, and it took only one year from research and development to the market.
From 2005 to 2019, Lianhua Qingwen Capsule has been included in the diagnosis and treatment plan for respiratory diseases such as influenza by the National Health Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other departments for 19 times. With viral pneumonia such as H1N1, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and H7N9, the demand for Lianhua Qingwen has surged.
In 2020, Lianhua Qingwen's different preparation products have become the absolute bulk of Yiling Pharmaceutical revenue, and nearly half of Yiling Pharmaceuticals' revenue comes from Lianhua Qingwen.
Relying on Lianhua Qingwen, Yiling Pharmaceutical's performance and stock price both rose, and its founder Wu Yiling's net worth increased significantly. On the "2020 Hurun Global Rich List", 71-year-old Wu Yiling ranks 251st with a fortune of 21 billion RMB. He is the richest man in Shijiazhuang and the "richest A-share academician".
News (26)
Mystery of CCP giving the green light to Lianhua Qingwen all the way
In recent days, the efficacy of Lianhua Qingwen has been strongly questioned, and the stock price of Yiling Pharmaceutical has also plummeted. With so much controversy, why does the CCP vigorously promote it?
In early 2020, the epidemic broke out in Wuhan. In March of that year, Lianhua Qingwen was included in the "Three Drugs and Three Prescriptions" screened out by the CCP for the treatment of new coronary pneumonia with traditional Chinese medicine. In April, the State Food and Drug Administration of the Communist Party of China officially approved Lianhua Qingwen Capsules and Lianhua Qingwen Granules "application for novel coronavirus pneumonia indications", which are used for fever, cough and fatigue caused by mild and common covi variants. Lianhua Qingwen has since been listed for the first time in the fourth edition of the "Diagnosis and Treatment Program for Novel Coronavirus Infected Pneumonia" issued by the National Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
On 15 March 2022, the "Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Program (Trial Ninth Edition)" was released, and Lianhua Qingwen Capsules (granules) were once again recommended as therapeutic drugs. Yiling Pharmaceutical immediately announced that the company expects that the release of this document will have a positive impact on the market promotion of Lianhua Qingwen products.
However, there is no mention of the statement that "Lianhua Qingwen can prevent novel coronavirus pneumonia". Dr. Xiaoxu Lin, a former virus researcher at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute in the United States, told The Epoch Times.
At present, the only literature mentioning the preventive effect of Lianhua Qingwen Capsules is from the research of Professor Yuan Yadong of Hebei Medical University, published in the journal "Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine" in November 2021.
Lin Xiaoxu said that before this article was published, although there were clinical observations, there was no clinical report to support the use of Lianhua Qingwen Capsules as covid preventive drugs. Therefore, the conclusion of this article is questionable.
The crux of the question, he said, was this: What government agency decided to buy Lianhua Qingwen capsules in large quantities and distribute them in large quantities to healthy people who were not infected before there was sufficient clinical evidence to report? How did this decision come about? Who will take this responsibility? Is there an issue of benefit transfer?
News (27)
CCP's anti-epidemic policies are not reliable
Regarding Lianhua Qingwen being widely questioned, current affairs commentator Li Linyi said that the CCP is very embarrassed now because such an unreliable drug has been given the green light by the CCP authorities all the way, and it has received official support since SARS. This actually shows that the CCP's anti-epidemic policy is not reliable at all, of course, this also includes the so-called "dynamic clearing".
News (28)
Experts who reported abnormal genetic testing of BGI were marked as grade 10 disabled (video)
Reporter : Li Ming / Editor: Xu Gengwen / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/18/a103403892.html / Image On 6 February 2020, in the "Huoyan" laboratory opened by BGI Group in Wuhan, a staff member is processing samples that need to be tested for covi. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
A video taken by Wang Deming, director of the Jiangsu Center of China's National Gene Bank, was recently circulated overseas and attracted public attention. Wang Deming stated that he was beaten by gangsters hired by BGI because of a real-name report of a problem in the nucleic acid test of BGI.
In the video clips that have been exposed on the Internet, Wang Deming, who was lying on the hospital bed, said that he had cooperated with BGI earlier, during which he found that BGI's nucleic acid test positive rate was many, many times higher than the normal standard, which was outrageous to complete impossible data. He had asked BGI staff what the abnormal data was about but no one had explained it to him. He further observed and found that those people at BGI have very low academic qualifications, and even "completely understand" their majors.
Wang Deming began to study the process of BGI's nucleic acid detection experiment, and inspected its experimental equipment, consumables, reagents, etc., and found serious problems. He once persuaded the people of BGI that their practice was to make money and kill people and harm the world but the people of BGI did not listen at all.
Afterwards, Wang Deming reported the problems he found in BGI to relevant leaders in real name. Unexpectedly, he was beaten by gangsters hired by BGI, and his 7 bones were broken. He became a grade 10 disabled person. The shady story of BGI exposed in the media was also deleted by the network administrator.
According to public information, BGI (English abbreviation BGI), formerly known as Beijing BGI Research Center, was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. In 2002, under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and relying on the BGI Research Center, the National Engineering Research Center for Bioinformatics Systems Engineering was established; in 2003, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Beijing Institute of Genomics on this basis; in 2007, BGI established Shenzhen BGI Research Institute. The official website of BGI Group declares that the institution is "the founder of China's genetic industry" and "one of the few genetic big data centres in the world".
In 2017, BGI was listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In November of the same year, in the different versions of BGI's IPO filings, there was a "fight" with inconsistent data, which aroused media attention and the market was skeptical of BGI, which led to its stock price falling continuously. By June 2018, The market value of BGI has evaporated by 68 billion. Since then, BGI's non-invasive genetic testing technology has also been questioned in the industry.
In April 2019, BGI Group was sent a decision on administrative supervision measures by Shenzhen Securities Regulatory Bureau due to an inflated net profit of tens of millions, which once again caused BGI’s stock price to continue to fall. By May 2019, its market value fell from its peak period. nearly seventy percent.
After the covid outbreak in 2019, BGI has sold tens of millions of nucleic acid detection reagents around the world but at the same time, BGI’s testing has repeatedly been found to have serious errors.
At that time, BGI was the main contractor of the 2019 coronavirus testing service in Hong Kong, but its test results were repeatedly found to have false positives or false negatives, and there were delays in issuing negative reports, resulting in many false positives. Innocent people were sent to hospitals, their close contacts were also sent to quarantine centres, and the places where they went to work or school were also implicated, leading to suspension of work or school.
On 22 April 2021, 30 samples reported by BGI to the Department of Health tested positive. After re-examination by other institutions, it was found that the test results did not match, and there was a lack of environmental correlation between multiple samples. To this end, Professor Yuan Guoyong of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong personally went to the laboratory of BGI to investigate, and found that there were many problems in the process of processing samples by BGI, resulting in cross-contamination of the specimens and two true positive samples. Dozens of samples were contaminated, and nearly a hundred of the affected subjects and their close contacts were sent to hospitals or confinement camps innocently.
In May of the same year, BGI conducted multiple tests on 4 people from India and the Philippines who were subject to compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong but they were never found to have the virus but these 4 people entered after the 21-day quarantine period expired. After the community, it was confirmed that they were all infected with the mutant virus, which led to the influx of the mutant virus into the Hong Kong community. Due to the long-term enjoyment of the preferential treatment policy for high-tech enterprises granted by the CCP government, BGI has been unable to deliver successful market-oriented products and frequently made serious mistakes. Some commentators have compared BGI with Royole and Kuang-Chi Science and called it one of "Shenzhen's three major scams".
News (29)
Top US officials to visit Solomon Islands amid fears of CCP infiltration in the Pacific islands
Reporter : Li Yan / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/4/18/n13714628.htm /
Image : The picture shows Kurt Campbell, White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)
Amid concerns about the Solomon Islands and China reaching a security agreement, the White House said Monday (18 April 2022 that the White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kool Kurt Campbell and the State Department's top Asia official will travel to three Pacific island nations this week.
Campbell, along with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink, will lead a delegation that includes officials from the Department of Defense and USAID, the White House National Security Council said in a statement. They will travel to three countries Solomon Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
"The delegation will meet with senior government officials to ensure that our partnership brings prosperity, security and peace to the entire Pacific Islands and Indo-Pacific region." The statement did not give a date for the visit.
The delegation will also stop in Hawaii "for consultations with senior U.S. Indo-Pacific Command military officials and regional partners."
To counter China's further influence in the Indo-Pacific, the Biden-Harris administration is devoting more diplomatic and security resources to the region. In February, the United States announced that it would open an embassy in the Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands said in March it was forging a partnership with Beijing to address security threats and ensure a safe investment climate, underscoring the progress China has made in infiltrating the Pacific island nation. U.S. allies such as Australia and New Zealand, who have always regarded the Solomon Islands as a "back garden", have expressed concern over this, warning the Pacific neighbor not to let China meddle in local security affairs.
On 1 April, the office of Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the security agreement with China did not invite it to come to the island nation to build a military base. The draft security agreement was initially signed by officials from both countries a day earlier.
Australia's Defence Minister Peter Dutton said in an interview with Sky News that Canberra is concerned about Beijing's presence in the Pacific islands despite China telling the US it will not militarise the area, it has established 20 military bases in the South China Sea will follow a similar route.
The leader of the Federated States of Micronesia also urged the Solomon Islands not to sign the security deal, saying that in addition to "serious security concerns", he was concerned that the Pacific could be drawn into a U.S.-China conflict as a result. New Zealand has similarly warned that the agreement could undermine long-standing regional security cooperation.
Solomon Islands was one of the few countries that shared diplomatic relations with Taiwan, not China. It is reported that the CCP has lavished money on the “Belt and Road” project to win over 500 million U.S. dollars. After Sogavare took over as Prime Minister Solomon in April 2019, the cabinet turned to Beijing in September of the same year.
A month earlier, the United States had sent defense officials and aid contractors to the Solomon Islands, allowing it to build and maintain local infrastructure, such as roads, "without outside help". There have been delays in U.S. projects as the Pacific island nation severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and established diplomatic ties with CCP China.
In the process of "aiding", the CCP brought corruption and other problems to the government of the country, which caused dissatisfaction among the local people. Violent anti-government protests took place in the Solomon Islands in November 2021. Four people were killed in the process, and much of Chinatown in the capital, Honiara, was destroyed.
During the unrest, at Sogavare's request, more than 200 police and soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji maintained order in Honiara.
Erin McKee, the U.S. ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, said in a statement on 13 December 2021 that "the tragic loss of life and property damage in Honiara" should not have occurred, and warned the Pacific Islands not to accept aid that only "benefits individual people, individual political parties and individual bank accounts".
China proposed to redevelop a naval base in Papua New Guinea in 2018 but Australia's northern neighbor decided it would be developed by Australia.
News (30)
Myanmar's Civilian President demands international support
Source : The Irrawaddy
Image courtesy: Save Myanmar
Formed as a parallel government on 16 April 2021, largely by elected lawmakers from the ousted National League for Democracy and their ethnic minority allies, the NUG has enjoyed popular support at home and abroad. A majority of Myanmar’s people see it as their legitimate government, while the regime has branded it a terrorist organization.
In his state of the union address to mark a year since the NUG’s formation, Duwa Lashi La expressed gratitude for the international community’s diplomatic support in isolating the illegitimate junta and imposing targeted sanctions.
“However, I would like to stress the urgency,” he said. “Each day the military murders and tortures more innocent men, women and children.
“As the world is witnessing the atrocities and crimes committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, we too are witnessing the tyrannical military in Myanmar committing similar atrocities and crimes against the entire population for over a year,” he said.
Since seizing power on 1 February 2021, the regime has slaughtered at least 1,756 people, many of whom were engaging in anti-regime activism.
The regime has killed numerous children and elderly people in its escalated terror campaign.
Rights groups have reported more than 100 child deaths since the coup. The regime has burned down at least 9,187 civilian homes, with the resistance stronghold of Sagaing Region suffering the heaviest damage, according to the independent research group Data for Myanmar.
Amid rising violence the NUG declared a “people’s war” on 7 September 2021 against the regime, taking the armed struggle to another level.
“Support our efforts to enable the people to defend themselves from atrocities. The people can and will win. Lives will be saved if you provide support,” the ethnic Kachin acting president said.
He also called for support for the civil disobedience movement and People’s Embrace program, which helps military defectors to resettle. According to the NUG, around 10,000 police and military defectors have left their posts through the People’s Embrace.
“The international community can help stop further bloodshed by providing aid and asylum to those who have sought refuge through People’s Embrace,” he added.
On Saturday, the NUG reported that its armed wing, in the numerous people’s defense forces, and ethnic allies, controlled around half of the country, particularly rural areas, as well as positions around several major cities.
Duwa Lashi La said the NUG has built trust and cooperation with many ethnic armies and is working to build unity with all ethnic organizations.
“We shall make every effort to protect the people from the brutally violent assaults of the junta’s forces. At the same time, we will continue working to free people and territory under the domination of the military council.
“I am convinced that we will succeed in the end, and the people will win back the entire country.”
No comments:
Post a Comment