On December 9, the Chinese Communist Party officially reported a confirmed imported case. On the 9th of December, there were no new confirmed cases or any infected persons. However, some netizens questioned the official statement and suggested that the authorities may have initiated a dumping operation.
According to official media reports, a confirmed case of the imported type was found in Chengdu on the 8th. The patient, a 29-year-old woman of Chinese nationality, was diagnosed in the United Kingdom in August and, after quarantine treatment, entered the country on October 27 in Shanghai and was placed under quarantine. She returned to Chengdu on November 15, and on December 7, she went to West China Hospital for treatment of chronic pharyngitis, and on December 8, she developed fever, pharyngeal discomfort, and abnormal chest CT scan results, which led to the diagnosis of a confirmed case.
The patient was released from quarantine and returned to Chengdu with about three weeks of free time, but authorities did not disclose the patient’s activities, the neighborhood where he lived, or announce any information about possible close contacts. Some netizens have suggested that the authorities are likely preparing a dumping ground for the outbreak.
In response to the sudden outbreak in Chengdu, experts at West China Hospital said the new outbreak in Chengdu was a cluster outbreak, with no community transmission, and asserted that the wave of epidemics will not last. Authorities called community transmission, when there is a confirmed patient, can not find the path of its activities and with whom it has been in contact, that is, the infection path is unknown.
Authorities say that in the past three days, 739,000 people have been sampled and 399,300 people have been tested.
Currently, the formerly bustling and bustling Chunxi Road is almost empty, while nucleic acid testing continues at multiple sites near Chunxi Road.
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