Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Monday, December 26, to take measures to “effectively protect people’s lives“, at a time when his country is facing an outbreak of Covid-19 contamination, reported state television.
This is the first public comment from the Beijing strongman since the abandonment in early December of strict anti-Covid measures, in force since 2020. Three years after the appearance of the very first cases of coronavirus in Wuhan (center) , the country is facing an explosion of cases.
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Many hospitals are overwhelmed, pharmacies report shortages of fever medication, while many crematoriums interviewed by AFP reported an unusually high influx of bodies to be cremated. “China’s Covid-19 prevention and control faces a new situation and new tasks“Said Xi Jinping quoted by state television CCTV.
“We need to run a more focused patriotic health campaign […] and build a strong bulwark against the epidemic“, added Xi Jinping, without further details. China has only officially announced six Covid deaths since restrictions were lifted. A largely undervalued assessment according to many experts, while a large part of the elderly in China are not vaccinated against Covid.
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