Harbin strict control of the epidemic information netizens: fear of losing their hats again

The outbreak in Harbin is still escalating, yet so is the authorities’ tight control over information about the outbreak. Netizens say the authorities are not only discounting the number of confirmed diagnoses and infections, but are also no longer releasing the trajectories of patients’ activities. Netizens analyzed that the true disclosure of information about the Epidemic would cost these officials their black hats.

According to the local official media, from 0-24 hours on January 31, there were 13 new confirmed cases of CCP virus in Harbin, including 6 cases in Hulan District, 3 cases in Limin Development Zone and 2 cases in Daoli District; there were also 3 new asymptomatic infections, including 2 cases in Hulan District and 1 case in Limin Development Zone.

According to the report, the two confirmed cases in Daoli District, one is living in Daoli District, Jianguo Street, Jianguo North 4th Street, and the other in Daoli District, Xinyang Road Street, Anhua Street. Authorities say they have upgraded Xinyang Road Street in Daoli District to a medium risk area.

However, the official media did not announce the trajectory of the activities of the additional CCP virus patients, nor did they release details of the individual patients.

However, informed netizens disclosed that on the evening of January 31, authorities sent many large buses to pull many people away from the Glory World neighborhood in Daoli District, Harbin, to centralize quarantine, and this neighborhood was also closed for another 14 days, with residents not even allowed to go downstairs. The video shows that because the notice was announced suddenly, many residents did not have Time to prepare the Food and supplies needed for the 14 days of quarantine and had to line up overnight to buy them. Some residents also asked friends or relatives living in other neighborhoods to bring them food and supplies.

However, the authorities have not informed or reported on the outbreak.

Another netizen disclosed that also on the evening of January 31, in the Wutong County neighborhood of Daowai District, Harbin, the authorities sent many large buses to pull residents away for centralized quarantine. However, there was no local media coverage of the outbreak.

On January 31, the city of Harbin informed that 12 officials, including the deputy mayor of Songbei District, were held accountable for the outbreak of the epidemic throughout Harbin due to a gathering epidemic at Zhengda Food Company in Harbin’s Songbei District.

Netizens analyzed that these officials were not held accountable for their ineffective prevention and control of the epidemic, but for not covering up the information about the epidemic and letting the public know the origin and direction of the epidemic, thus giving the public room to analyze and discuss the ways and means of the Communist Party’s official prevention and control of the epidemic, and making the Communist Party’s upper echelon feel uneasy.

Local netizens are also expressing their dissatisfaction with the increasingly black-box operation of the authorities.

“So far the source is unknown, confirmed or asymptomatic action track is increasingly unclear, to support Harbin are only the northeast, the unit sent countless colleagues to do nucleic acid to residents in various parts of the city, but also sent countless people stationed at the fever clinic, in this case, Harbin, hope to hurry up and get better.”

“I cried, the courier does not give out. The big supermarket in front of my Home was closed because of the patients who were confirmed to have been there a few days ago, and I didn’t dare to go far away.”

“Is the phone number of the Harbin epidemic command 24 hours a day? I can’t get through.”

“Can not let the unit on holiday, do not go out, the virus suffocated. Now do not dare to take public transport, do not dare to take a taxi, do not dare to go to the supermarket.”

“I do not know what keywords are triggered, issued and gone, tried three times are not working ……”

“How do I feel that our Heilongjiang to expand it, this, this growth is too fast, the economic development has this speed is good.”

“I’m convinced, every day you can only see the numbers pop up, but the specific cities and counties a little bit do not know, even if you are not so fast to find out the moving line, you have to report the location of confirmed cases out ah !!!! Really convinced!!! I really want to report the Heilongjiang government, the attitude is not positive at all.”