The Wuhan pneumonia epidemic continues to heat up in many parts of China, with cases continuing to increase in the hardest-hit area of Hebei, where authorities have once again deployed personnel from various provinces to Shijiazhuang to support the outbreak. Against this backdrop, the fourth meeting of the 13th People’s Congress of Hebei Province, scheduled to be held in Shijiazhuang on January 25, has been postponed. In addition, the number of cases in Heilongjiang is also on the rise, while the local situation in Beijing is even more alarming, with full nucleic acid testing inside Xicheng District’s Zhuang Sheng Plaza.
According to the latest official notification, there were 40 new confirmed local cases in Hebei Province in a single day on January 11, including 39 cases in Shijiazhuang and 1 case in Langfang. Another 26 new cases of local asymptomatic infection were added, all of which were added in Shijiazhuang. The Hebei Provincial health Commission announced the action track of confirmed cases, and netizens have expressed concern: “It’s the day of constant notification of the epidemic again, men, women and children, the virus is too scary, 66 new cases a day, it’s too scary, it’s really like Wuhan in the beginning of last year.”
The severity of the epidemic situation in Hebei is feared to be more serious than the outside world imagined. Against this backdrop, the 77th meeting of the Directors of the Standing Committee of the 13th People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China in Hebei Province on January 11 decided to postpone the fourth meeting of the 13th People’s Congress of Hebei Province originally scheduled to be held in Shijiazhuang on January 25. The exact time of the meeting will be announced.
In addition, authorities continue to urgently deploy medical and nursing staff from around the country to Hebei for support. According to the news released by the Hebei Provincial Health Care Commission on the 11th, in accordance with the unified deployment of the National Health Care Commission, 103 professionals have been deployed from Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces respectively, and have arrived one after another on the 10th and 11th to provide support. Tianjin City to support Xingtai Nangong City, 24 medical personnel and 8 negative pressure ambulances have arrived in the evening of the 10th. Wuhan’s mobile CT truck to support Xingtai Nangong City arrived on the 11th.
While official media continue to report positive news of medical personnel from all over the world “rushing to help Hebei”, a different phenomenon is seen on mainland social media.
Under the epidemic, chaos abounds
According to the Central News Agency, a video on the Internet shows a driver from Hebei stranded on the road, unable to buy rice or fill up with gas, the driver cried helplessly: “We are not sold rice, we are not given gas, and we are not allowed to walk on the road.
Microblog account “sociologist Hu Shunan” said, “Shijiazhuang and Xingtai people in the foreign road repeatedly blocked, and discriminated against.” This means that what happened to Wuhan people is happening again to Hebei people.
In addition, due to the epidemic, local university students in Hebei who took an early vacation could not return home and school and were stuck in the streets and could not call a cab.
According to an online video, Ms. Yuan, a volunteer, was driving home in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, late at night on the 9th when she received a call for help, saying that several college students on vacation were stuck in the streets. Due to the epidemic control, the students could not return to school or home, and although they had contacted a hotel, they could not call a car or even try to ride a shared bike through the App. After confirming that they all had proof of nucleic acid testing, Ms. Yuan sent them to the hotel.
The video sparked heated debate among netizens, who asked, “Which school is this?” and “Universities can’t be one-size-fits-all.
According to previous reports, Hebei University announced an emergency early holiday on the 5th, followed by a number of schools. According to a message released by Hebei University on the evening of the 6th, the university completed the safe and orderly return escort of students to the university on the 5th and 6th.
Heilongjiang and Beijing are also not optimistic about the epidemic
In addition to Hebei, Heilongjiang Suihua Wangkui County on the 11th identified 20 cases of asymptomatic infection, the local government announced the emergency closure of the city, all the community Tun village to implement closed management, and mandatory full testing. According to the latest official notification on the 12th, within a single day on the 11th, 1 new case of local confirmation (the first case of asymptomatic infection to confirmation in Wangkui County this round), in addition, 36 new cases of asymptomatic infection. All are villagers of Li Jinghua Tun, Huizi Village, Huizi Town, Wangkui County. Netizens worry that whether the domestic virus has been infectious rate has also been enhanced, now are a large swath of infection. It feels like it’s all over the place at once.
However, it is worth noting that the official local notification data on the 11th night was 1 confirmed case and 45 cases of asymptomatic infection. But the latest notification on the 12th is 1 confirmed case, 36 cases of asymptomatic infection cases. Therefore, some netizens questioned: “Last night’s release was 45 asymptomatic cases, 1 confirmed case, 36 asymptomatic cases announced today have been counted together?” Netizens replied, “Yesterday 20, plus today’s 36.” Some netizens believe that yesterday’s were also counted together, while others believe that they were separated and not counted. Therefore, netizens said that the official notification of the data is ambiguous and misleading to the public.
Netizens questioned the ambiguity of the official notification of the epidemic data in Heilongjiang (Photo source: Weibo)
There are also netizens who reported how Harbin Hulan District did not report that there is already a confirmed community and blocked the entire building under martial law.
Some netizens said that Harbin Hulan District already has a building was whole building under martial law, but no official notification (Photo source: microblogging)
Beijing side of the epidemic is also seriously strained. According to the party media CCTV News 12 reported that on January 11, Beijing Xicheng District received a letter of concordance from the CDC to the Hebei Provincial CDC, stating that a confirmed case of Wu lung in Gu’an County, Langfang City, Hebei Province is an employee of a company in Xicheng District, Zhuang Sheng Square, who has a history of living in Shijiazhuang.
The Beijing side received the above notice, in the first emergency to Zhuang Sheng Plaza into closed control, and carry out full nucleic acid testing, has been traced to the relevant close contacts 95 people, has implemented strict control measures.
Under the related topic string, some netizens left messages complaining that the confirmed personnel should be sanctioned by law, or suggested to send to North Korea. But others said that under the epidemic, stop creating hatred, which no one wants.
Based on the current tight official controls around the country, it is reasonable to question that the true state of the epidemic in China may be worse than the official announcement.
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