About 100 cases of coronavirus infection Covid-19 found in one week in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, near Beijing January 8, 2021
A case of death due to coronavirus (CCP) infection was announced Thursday, Jan. 14, in China’s Hebei province. This is the first case in eight months. The rebound of the coronavirus outbreak in the northern hemisphere has also hit China.
According to the Hebei Provincial health Commission today, the new fatal case was a female with an underlying illness and an extremely serious case of infection, who died in the afternoon of January 13. No other further details were disclosed.
The news immediately sent shockwaves through the Chinese web, with more than 100 million hits on Weibo. One netizen exclaimed, “It’s so shocking, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the words +viral death+ in China.” This netizen expressed hope that the outbreak would end soon.
This latest death from coronavirus infection in China comes just days after multiple sources of infection were discovered, leading authorities to take a determined response.
Heilongjiang province, which borders Russia, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. The province’s 37.5 million residents have been told not to leave the province except in emergencies. The province has canceled all planned rallies.
More than 5 million residents of the vast territory of Suihua, Heilongjiang province, have been quarantined since Monday. Residents must stay at home and public transportation has been suspended.
This year, Feb. 12 is the Chinese New Year. As the Spring Festival approaches, hundreds of millions of migrant workers will be returning home, and the surge in coronavirus infections is worrying authorities.
Against this backdrop, a WHO team arrived in Wuhan, China, today, Thursday. The city reported its first coronavirus cases in late 2019. The mission of this team of experts, composed of 10 scientists from different countries, is to trace the source of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
The visit was very sensitive for the Chinese regime, with the authorities in Beijing eager to rule out any responsibility for the outbreak that has killed nearly 2 million people worldwide. The WHO team was scheduled to arrive in China last week, but the trip was cancelled at the last minute due to the lack of all necessary authorizations.
The WHO team of experts’ visit to China is expected to last five to six weeks. Fabian Leendertz, a member of the German Robert Koch Institute, told AFP that the team would explore “all avenues” but would not seek to identify the culprit.
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