The official version is this: from December 3 to Monday the 19th —that is, over the course of 16 days—, no one died in China from Covid-19. In a country of 1.4 billion people, which even lifted restrictions on December 7, heavily easing the strict infection control policy, no one died. This is the version of the Chinese authorities. However, the reality may be very different, as reported by international media and health experts.
In recent days, criticism of the Chinese regime’s management of Covid-19 has intensified. On December 7, after popular protests against the restrictions that had been in place until then —against, in particular, the “zero Covid” policy, which brought down the Chinese economy as it had not been seen for a long time (it should grow 3% this year), the worst performance in almost 50 years), the regime in Beijing changed its strategy.
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Source: Observadora
