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News on CCP, disease control
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Epidemic in Beijing pushes China's annual economic meeting back
Image : Bloomberg reported that China is postponing its annual economic work conference, which is expected to begin this Thursday, mainly due to the covid epidemic in Beijing. The picture shows an ambulance and medical staff wearing protective clothing outside a fever clinic of a hospital in Beijing. (Associated Press)
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) quoted informed sources on the evening of the 13th that China originally planned to hold the annual Central Economic Work Conference this Thursday. The closely watched meeting was postponed; Communist Party General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping, members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and other senior government officials had planned to attend this closed-door meeting to set their economic policy course and goals for 2023.
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No clear timetable on the economic work conference
After the Chinese government abandoned Xi Jinping's signature "dynamic clearing" policy, the epidemic in Beijing is spreading rapidly. When will the economic work conference be rescheduled? The Chinese authorities still have no clear timetable, the people familiar with the matter said. China's State Council Information Office did not comment on Bloomberg and other related reports.
The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which is held in early December every year to set the tone for the economic policy of the coming year, was held last Tuesday. In the past, the Central Economic Work Conference of the Communist Party of China will be held within a week after the meeting to formulate and improve policies. Previously, the market reported that this year's Central Economic Work Conference of the Communist Party of China will be held this Thursday. It is expected to set targets for China's monetary and fiscal policies, and may also discuss next year's economic growth targets, which will be announced during the "two sessions" of the CCP People's Political Consultative Conference.
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1,027 new local covid cases in Beijing on 12 December 2022 which is underestimated
Beijing notified 1,027 new cases of local infection on the 12th. Photos posted online in China show long queues at many local fever clinics, reflecting a surge in the number of new covi infections.
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200,000 people in Beijing had tested covi-positive in the past week
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on 13 December 2022 that an unnamed person in Beijing quoted medical personnel as saying that in the past week, about 200,000 people in Beijing had tested positive for nucleic acid, and the number is still increasing; hundreds of hospitals in Beijing have received many covid nucleic acid tests covi-positive patients, collective infection of medical staff, resulting in thousands of cancer patients or patients who need kidney dialysis cannot go to the hospital normally.
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Infected medical staff still have to work in Beijing hospitals
In Shanghai, The Paper quoted Zeng Guang, the former chief scientist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as saying that the COVID-19 epidemic storm came too fast, and many medical staff were infected. In order for the hospital to operate normally, asymptomatic and mildly infected medical staff personnel still need to work, and now it is like "slightly injured can't go to the front line" in wartime.
News (6) to (14) / Editor : Tang Zheng / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/12/13/a103596734.html
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Zhang Wenhong's internal meeting: The epidemic will reach its peak in three or four weeks, and everyone will be infected
Image : On 9 December 2022, medical staff pushed a patient into an ambulance at a fever clinic of a hospital in Beijing. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
After the CCP’s epidemic prevention policy was loosened rapidly, the number of fever patients in various parts of the mainland has increased sharply, and medical facilities are facing collapse. Recently, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, made a recorded speech at an internal meeting and circulated on the Internet. He said that eventually everyone will be infected, and he expects this wave of epidemics to reach its peak in three to four weeks and may last for half a year.
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Zhang Wenhong: Everyone has an equal chance of Omicron infection anywhere
Recently, Zhang Wenhong gave a speech inside Huashan Hospital, and made the latest research and judgment on the situation of this wave of epidemic. He believes that when dealing with the front line of the epidemic, this is completely different from the Wuhan period and the Great Shanghai Defense War. Today you are not infected in the hospital, you may be infected when you eat out, you may be infected when you go home.
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Zhang Wenhong: When nucleic acid testing is abandoned, the speed of infection is faster
He said that the routine nucleic acid testing outside is no longer done, and in this case the speed of infection will be very fast. He believes that in terms of the overall trend now, everyone will actually be infected in the end, whether the infection takes a long time or sooner or later.
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Zhang Wenhong: Speed of infection in the community is faster than in the hospital if there is no protection
He said that the possibility of infection in the community is now greater, because the hospital has taken protection, but the community does not take protection, so the speed of infection may be faster in the community than in the hospital. The current practice of hospitals hopes that the infection in hospitals will be slower than that in communities.
How long is this wave of epidemics likely to last? Zhang Wenhong said that from now on, whether it is a fever clinic, more patients with serious underlying diseases who are actually positive will gradually increase, because many people still have to go to the hospital to see a doctor. Therefore, in the whole society, the peak of concentrated infection will be reached in the next 3 to 4 weeks.
He believes that as long as the last month is passed, the overall pressure will gradually decrease from next month, but when the peak arrives, every hospital will be under pressure. "If our hospital doesn't pay attention, we will superimpose the transmission in the hospital on the basis of community infection, and the transmission speed in the hospital will be very fast."
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Zhang Wenhong: Medical management must be done well to avoid large number of infections and higher death rate
"If the medical management is not done well, we will definitely have a relatively large number of nosocomial infections. In the future, we will have a shortage of personnel, and at the same time there will be infections of patients in the hospital, and the mortality rate will increase." He said.
"In the end, you will find that the entire society is probably infected faster than our hospital infection rate. So in principle, if we don't get infected in the hospital today, we will get infected outside." Zhang Wenhong predicted that this wave of epidemics is always possible. It will last for 3 to 6 months, and the peak may come in a month.
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Zhang Wenhong: Wear N95 masks when visiting elderly, Do not dance, Avoid mahjong and chatting in gatherings
Zhang Wenhong said that this month is a relatively difficult month, and the protection of the elderly is very critical. He suggested that for the protection of the elderly at home, in addition to vaccinations, children should wear N95 masks when they visit the elderly recently; tell the elderly not to dance square dances, play mahjong, or gather to chat during this period.
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Huashan Hospital vacated Building 5 to treat covid patients
At present, Huashan Hospital has vacated Building 5 to treat covid patients.
Zhang Wenhong said that Building No. 5 is now in use. If one is not enough, will other wards be vacated? Once positive patients come out from other wards, the risk of infection in the entire hospital will increase. For the time being, we are currently concentrating on a fever ward that is an emergency department.
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Zhang Wenhong: No special treatment for covid patients
Regarding the treatment of covid patients, Zhang Wenhong admitted that in principle, there is no special treatment. Now clinically, it is mainly symptomatic treatment, mainly symptoms such as headache, fever, muscle pain, and cold. "At this time, if the patient does not have unstable vital signs, we only need to deal with the symptoms. In principle, the patient can go back."
Regarding the admission and treatment of patients, Zhang Wenhong believes that the indicators for admission and treatment should not be set too broadly. In the end, these wards will soon be saturated, and there will be a wave of run on medical resources later.
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Zhang Wenhong: Omicron can still be detected in lungs of people with slightly lower immune function
Regarding the symptoms of Omicron, Zhang Wenhong said that for a patient with a relatively good immune function, the proportion of lung infection lesions is actually relatively low. Many people now think that there is no detection in the lungs of Omicron, which is also wrong. There are still some people with slightly lower immune function.
News (15) to (21) / Reporters : Zhao Fenghua and Jiang Xin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/12/13/a103596777.html
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After the "Sitong Bridge" Incident, Jiangxi painter published Peng Lifa's Portrait and was arrested
Image : Video Screenshot
On 15 October 2022, the day after the "Sitong Bridge" incident, Jiangxi painter Xiao Liang posted a portrait of Peng Lifa on Twitter, but his Twitter account "Chinese Painter" stopped updating that day.
Xiao Liang's wife, Ms. Yan, told The Epoch Times in the evening of 11 December that Xiao Liang was taken away by the authorities on 16 October, and one of his computers was also taken away. Xiao Liang was administratively detained in the name of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and was arrested on 7 December.
Another Twitter user tweeted that he was interviewed by the police for posting a picture of Peng Lifa.
The "Sitong Bridge" incident continued to ferment, and Peng Lifa's banners appeared at the protest sites of Chinese people all over the world. These slogans have also become the slogan of "blank paper revolution", which made the authorities fearful.
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Fuzhou Medical College students rally to protest against changes
In the evening of 12 December, students from Fuzhou University gathered in the playground to protest the school’s change of the plan for returning home.
The screenshot of the group chat shows that in the afternoon, the teacher notified in the group that "all undergraduates will be suspended from December 12-15", but within 10 minutes, the students received the "latest notice", saying that "the teaching plan will not be adjusted for the time being". .
Fuzhou University changed the order day by day, which aroused the anger of students. Some students said: "This is not a small problem at all, it reflects the disregard of students' demands."
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Postgraduates from Jiangsu Medical Colleges gather to protest, demanding fair treatment
Image : Video Screenshot
On the evening of the same day, graduate students from Xuzhou Medical University gathered on campus to protest, demanding fair treatment.
Some students broke the news: "Now the covi-positive index is increasing. The hospital only provides masks for the staff of the hospital. The graduate student Gui Peisheng does not provide N95 masks. Parents are notified to take them home if they are positive, leading to suicide".
Another video showed professional degree graduate students from Jiangsu People's Hospital gathering to protest, demanding reasonable policies.
Protesting students: "Equal pay for equal work!"
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Student protests break out at Jiangxi Medical College of Nanchang University
On the same night, student protests broke out at the Jiangxi Medical College of Nanchang University. The school's professional graduate students shouted slogans and demanded higher wages.
Protesting students: "Equal pay for equal work! Equal pay for equal work!"
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Students at West China Clinical Medical College of Sichuan University protest, demanding equal pay for equal work
On the same night, due to high-intensity work and the inability to ask for leave, students from the West China School of Clinical Medicine of Sichuan University staged a protest, demanding voluntary return to their hometowns and equal pay for equal work.
Protesting students: "Equal pay for equal work! Reject double standards! Return home voluntarily! Don't threaten!"
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The outbreak of the epidemic in Beijing has seen a 16-fold increase in the number of patients with fever in a week
The CCP authorities have suddenly relaxed the epidemic prevention and control in recent days, and the epidemic situation in various parts of the mainland has spread rapidly. On December 11, there were 22,000 outpatient visits to fever clinics in Beijing, 16 times that of a week ago. At the same time, the number of incoming 120 emergency calls increased sharply, reaching six times the usual level. When the epidemic broke out, the official demanded to vigorously promote the resumption of work, causing public grievances.
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Beijing was hit by dust and reached serious pollution standards
On 12 December 2022, Beijing was hit by sand and dust, reaching serious pollution standards. Many places in the north also encountered sand and dust weather.
China Mainland Weather Network reported that at 10.57 am on 12 December, the concentration of dust in many places in Beijing exceeded 1000, reaching the standard for serious air pollution.
Many places in the north were also hit by dust weather. On the 12th, parts of 9 provinces and cities including Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, and Xinjiang experienced blowing sand or floating dust.
News (22) to (25) / Reporter : Chen Chengliang / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4153497
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China's prevention and control major turn, French media reveals: It may be related to Xi Jinping's diagnosis
Image : Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chao (right) has been diagnosed with the covid virus recently, and he has repeatedly talked with Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) during the APEC meeting without wearing a mask. (Associated Press)
CCP China has greatly relaxed its epidemic prevention and control, with almost no testing, the health itinerary code has been canceled since 13 December 2022, and the quarantine in square cabin hospitals will also come to an end. French media pointed out that the Beijing authorities now seem to be determined to let the spread of the virus bet on herd immunity, and the change in China's attitude towards epidemic prevention may also be related to the diagnosis of CCP President Xi Jinping himself.
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Beijing's infection rate is "nearly 13 percent"
Radio France Internationale (RFI) quoted an article from the French newspaper Le Monde on the 13th, pointing out that four days after the main blockade measures were lifted, the number of confirmed cases in Beijing surged within 72 hours. No one knows the exact number because under nucleic acid testing the dots appeared suddenly like 6 months ago, and now they suddenly disappeared. According to several different estimates, about 10% of Beijing's 22 million residents have contracted the virus. The Solidarité Covid website, run by French expatriate experts, estimates that the infection rate is "nearly 13 percent".
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CCP China gives up testing and tracing, leaving only quarantine, Xi could have learnt something about co-existence with covid virus
The article pointed out that since January 2020, China's fight against the epidemic has followed a three-step process: testing, tracking, and isolation. Now, testing is almost non-existent, whether it is taking transportation or entering public places, nucleic acid test results are no longer required. Tracing was also cancelled, leaving only quarantine. Although the isolation still exists, the collective shelter isolation will also end. Infected patients must take care of themselves at home, and everyone is responsible for their own health.
Observers have had their fair share of speculation about what prompted the Beijing government to reopen so quickly. The surge in cases in Beijing and Guangzhou amid the zero-covid policy, the deteriorating economic situation, and people apparently fed up with zero-covid policy undoubtedly played the roles.
Some observers also believe that it is not ruled out that when Xi Jinping went to Bali, Indonesia to participate in the G20 summit in mid-November, he saw that the rest of the world was co-existing with the virus and he learned something. Even, maybe Xi Jinping has been infected by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee. Xi Jinping talked with him many times without wearing a mask during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) in Bangkok, Thailand from 18 to 19 November and John Lee, who returned to Hong Kong, was later tested covi-positive.
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Up to 2.1 million people could die in China of covid
Regardless, China now seems determined to let the virus spread, hoping for herd immunity. However, between 1.3 million and 2.1 million people could die in China, according to estimates by Airfinity, a London-based organization that tracks Hong Kong after it re-opens in the fall.
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The number of people cannot be accurately grasped... China will not publish data on asymptomatic infections from 14 December 2022
China recently announced 10 new measures to optimize epidemic prevention and relax epidemic prevention controls. The epidemic situation in the capital Beijing is becoming increasingly severe. The National Health Commission of China used to add the number of asymptomatic confirmed cases to the number of confirmed cases of the previous day every day, but the National Health Commission announced on 14 December 2022 that it will no longer publish the number of confirmed asymptomatic cases because "it cannot be grasp accurately the actual number of asymptomatic infections."
On 14 December, the National Health Commission announced the number of new confirmed cases in a single day on the 13th. There were 2,291 imported and local confirmed cases, and no new deaths. However, the difference between today's latest epidemic data and the version released on 13 December is that the version released on 14 December no longer includes the number of asymptomatic infections and the distribution provinces.
The National Health Commission of China pointed out that the current nucleic acid testing for covid implements the strategy of "willing to test all" but many asymptomatic infected persons no longer participate in nucleic acid testing, so it is impossible to accurately grasp the actual number of asymptomatic infected persons. Data on asymptomatic infections will no longer be published.
News (27) to (30) / Editor : Tang Ying / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/12/14/a103597610.html
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Analysis: Chinese no longer fear tyranny
Image : On 19 November 2022, Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. (HAIYUN JIANG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The recent "blank paper revolution" that broke out across China forced the CCP to make a sharp change in policy and quickly canceled "dynamic clearing", highlighting that the people no longer fear the CCP's dictatorship. According to expert analysis, Xi Jinping has offended too many people inside and outside, and the final outcome is more or less auspicious.
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Chinese people have broken their fear
On 7 December 2022, the CCP officially released the "New Ten Measures" for epidemic prevention, and the zero-covid policy took a sharp turn, which is considered to be a response to the "blank paper revolution" and the protests of people everywhere.
The white paper movement detonated by the fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, spread to at least one-third of China's provinces and cities. Protests were held in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other first-tier cities, shouting "the Communist Party stepped down!" ", "Xi Jinping Step Down!", "Democracy, not dictatorship" and other slogans.
Chinese and Chinese students from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea and other countries held protests and solidarity activities. This movement is the first large-scale protest by Chinese people at home and abroad since the Tiananmen democracy movement in 1989, which has caused a strong impact on the CCP authorities. At present, the protest movement is still fermenting.
Xu Wenli, one of the founders of the China Democracy Party and a retired senior researcher at Brown University, told Voice of America that Western countries have already lifted the ban, and only the CCP is clearing it up. To a certain extent, public dissatisfaction is boiling."
Dr. Wu Guoguang, a senior researcher at Stanford University, said: The greatest significance of the "white paper revolution" so far is that the Chinese people have broken their fear and stood up bravely. ""The blank paper revolution has announced: There are thousands of brave daughters and men in the land of China, (Xi Jinping) will ask them whether to agree to do things or to take power!" "
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Xi Jinping's power grip could lead to a new governance crisis
Xi Jinping successfully won his third term at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and four of his cronies also became members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, the core of the Communist Party of China's power, while Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Hu Chunhua, three Youth League officials, were all out. Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the CCP, died on November 30, and Jiang's faction fell and scattered.
However, the outside world believes that Xi Jinping's power within the party may trigger a new ruling crisis.
Xu Wenli told Voice of America that Xi Jinping felt that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was firmly established, and he might be determined to launch a war to solve the Taiwan issue; or it could be that China's economy is in decline, foreign companies have moved out, and domestic conflicts have intensified. Xi Jinping may also take the risk and attack Taiwan to relieve domestic pressure, but the war in the Taiwan Strait will set Xi on fire.
"Under such circumstances, it is not the Allied Forces of Eight Nations, but the Allied Forces of 80 Countries to deal with the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping." Xu Wenli said.
Song Yongyi, an expert on China affairs and a retired professor at California State University, told Voice of America that Xi Jinping may rashly launch a war across the Taiwan Strait, but the result may end in failure. He will also step down."
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Opening up leads to new chaos, Xi Jinping is in a dilemma
The current Chinese society is full of ups and downs, and one wave after another. The "blank paper revolution" forced the CCP to give up the dynamic clearing but the unprepared and sudden release caused new chaos. Due to the low efficacy of China's domestically produced vaccines and inadequate medical facilities, the number of infections across China has surged after the liberalization, fever clinics are full, and medicines are also sold out, which may trigger a new storm of resistance.
Hu Ping, an expert on Chinese affairs, tweeted recently, "If you let go, Xi Jinping is in a dilemma. If you let go, nothing happens, nothing goes wrong, the virus is nothing more than a large flu, and the novel coronavirus pneumonia is nothing more than a self-limiting disease. If the epidemic breaks out and many people die once it is released, it means that clearing up is useless. No matter what kind of result occurs, it will embarrass the authorities and Xi Jinping.”
Hu Ping told the Voice of America that Xi Jinping's final outcome was "more ominous than good", "because he offended too many people inside and outside."
Hu Ping said that Xi Jinping must suppress everyone in order to highlight his personal authority. "He treats the people, dissidents, liberal intellectuals, including the upper class, whether it is the Tuan faction, whether it is the so-called Jiang faction, no matter what the princelings or the second generation of reds, because he wants to be dictatorial. Well, personal dictatorship, that is to suppress, not only to suppress the society, to suppress you, but also to suppress your colleagues.”
Wu Guoguang told Voice of America that Xi Jinping wants to learn from Mao Zedong but after Mao died, his wife and nephew were all arrested, and the successors he chose died one by one. "The more Xi Jinping wants to learn from Mao Zedong, the more likely his ending will become more and more like Mao Zedong in the future."
Well-known Chinese pro-democracy activist Wei Jingsheng told Voice of America that the current CCP’s monitoring is indeed very strict but not all officials are loyal to Xi Jinping. "Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are not big figures, and the rebellion in Daze Township is not predictable but it is a law of history that tyranny must die."
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