Novel Coronavirus is the most serious area in China. Severe restrictions remain in place. According to the client, female prisoners in the detention camp have to strip off their clothes and spray disinfectant every week. Residents who are quarantined at home are locked from the outside and are not allowed to go out; Isolation can last for more than 40 days, and a negative virus test does not end the isolation. Those who do not cooperate will be arrested.
From a nationwide perspective, the novel Coronavirus epidemic in China has been basically controlled and life has basically returned to normal. There has been a big recovery in domestic travel and factories and businesses have reopened. But xinjiang, in western China, is an exception. More than half the people there are still severely confined, a world apart from the rest of the country.
The Associated Press said that in combination with official notices, social media and interviews with three people in Xinjiang who have been quarantined, the local government has engaged in practices that experts say violate medical ethics and that some residents have been forced to take medicines that have not undergone rigorous clinical tests.
A middle-aged Uighur woman told the Associated Press that she was detained in China at the height of the epidemic and felt weak and nauseous after being forced to drink a traditional Chinese medicine. Once a week, she and her cellmates stripped naked and had their bodies and cells sprayed with disinfectant.
“The skin has a burning sensation,” the woman said by telephone from Xinjiang province. “My hand was destroyed and my skin began to peel.” The woman did not give her real name for fear of reprisals.
Since mid-July, 826 novel Coronavirus cases have been reported in Xinjiang. The lockdown lasted for 45 days. The current outbreak in Xinjiang is the worst of any province in China.
The city of Wuhan, where China’s outbreak began, has also been closed, but wuhan has far more cases than Xinjiang. Wuhan has more than 50,000 confirmed cases. Authorities have also stopped short of forcing Wuhan residents to take traditional Chinese medicine, and residents who have been quarantined at home are generally allowed to move around the community and send vegetables and food outside.
In early June, more than 300 cases were reported in Beijing, some neighborhoods were closed for weeks, and the city maintained mild anti-epidemic measures.
By contrast, more than half of Xinjiang’s 25m people are still locked up, hundreds of miles from the capital, Urumqi.
Surveillance equipment has been widely used in the lockdown, and more than 1 million uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in the camps are under surveillance.
The Associated Press says the Uighur woman was released after being held for more than a month and was quarantined as soon as she got home. She says community workers come once a day and force her to take unmarked white bottles of Chinese medicine. She said she would be rearrested if she did not drink.
Authorities say the measures were taken for the benefit of all the inhabitants of xinjiang. For decades, the Chinese government has struggled to control the People of Xinjiang. Uighurs resent Beijing’s heavy-handed tactics.
Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Friday that the government of The Xinjiang Autonomous Region has taken effective prevention and control measures to ensure the safety and health of people of all ethnic groups, following the outbreak of a concentrated epidemic in xinjiang in July.
“The positive trend of epidemic prevention and control in Xinjiang has been consolidated and expanded,” Zhao said.
In fact, the Treatment of han people is not very good. This month, thousands of Han Chinese took to social media to complain that the authorities had gone too far. Photographs showed some residents chained to railings by handcuffs and locked doors in their homes.
One Han businessman told the Associated Press that he had been quarantined since mid-July and that although he tested negative for the virus, authorities had not let him out. Authorities ordered him to delete his posts after he disclosed his condition online, and he was told to remain silent.
“The scariest thing is to remain silent,” the businessman wrote on weibo in mid-August. “If you keep silent for too long, you will sink into the abyss of despair.”
“I don’t remember how long I was in this room,” he wrote a few days later. I just want to forget everything.”
He was also forced to take a liquid Chinese medicine called Lianhua Qingwen, which the Xinjiang woman had used.
Lianhua Qingwen is a Chinese herbal medicine that is often seized by U.S. customs. FDA determined that novel Coronavirus had no therapeutic effect and was pure fraud.
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