Category: INSIDE CHINA

China’s Response to Surging COVID-19 Crisis Echoes Wuhan: Chinese Dissident

Online posts show that China’s major cities have been hit hard by the recent pandemic outbreak, following the sudden end of China’s strict COVID-19 containment measures. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Corpses are piled up in mortuaries. Long queues of hearses are waiting outside crematories. “After three years of stringent zero-COVID policies, the CCP has…


China May See a Peak of 25,000 People a Day Die From COVID in January: Report

As many as 25,000 Chinese people may die from COVID-19 at the expected peak of an infection wave next month, according to a British-based health analytics firm, offering a bleak prediction of what the regime’s abrupt U-turn in pandemic policy may mean in the absence of reliable COVID-19 figures. That is predicted to occur on…


EU Declining to Impose Curbs Amid China’s COVID Surge Is ‘Huge Gamble’: Expert

When Milan started testing arrivals from China for COVID amid the country’s explosive virus spread, it found that about half of the travelers on two flights had the virus. That prompted Italy, the first European country to be hit hard by the pandemic in 2020, to impose mandatory COVID testing on all passengers from China…


Italy Mandates COVID Testing of All China Arrivals After Half of Passengers on Two Flights From China to Milan Tested Positive

Italy has ordered mandatory COVID-19 testing of all travelers arriving from China, where the number of cases is surging, the health minister announced on Dec. 28. Despite the COVID outbreak continuing to spread in China, Beijing announced the easing of restrictions on international travel on Tuesday, sparking global concerns. Several other countries, including Japan, India,…


Italy Mandates COVID Testing of All China Arrivals

Italy has ordered mandatory COVID-19 testing of all travelers arriving from China, where the number of cases is surging, the health minister announced on Dec. 28. Despite the COVID outbreak continuing to spread in China, Beijing announced the easing of restrictions on international travel on Tuesday, sparking global concerns. Several other countries, including Japan, India,…


China’s COVID Outbreak Linked to Worldwide Shortage of Over-the-Counter Drugs

News Analysis Amid China’s major COVID-19 outbreak, panic buying of pain relievers and fever medicines has led to shortages in the country and abroad. Experts say the current rate of infections could breed new virus variants and threaten the international community. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sudden move to abandon its zero-COVID policy without a plan forward…


China’s COVID Chaos a ‘Horrible Indictment’ of US Leadership for Emulating CCP Lockdowns: Former White House Adviser

If the world can learn one thing from the COVID chaos in China, it is that “locking down does not work,” said healthcare policy adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. “We don’t even know really the extent of the harms to their population that they inflicted by locking down but we know anecdotally that there were massive…


CCP Now Scrambles to Save Economy After 3 Years of Extreme COVID-19 Restrictions Fail to Prevent Outbreak

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held an economic work conference in Beijing a week after its sudden abandonment of “zero-COVID” amid exponentially increasing citizen reports of COVID-19 cases and deaths. During the meeting, Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed the need to “vigorously boost market confidence” while expressing strong support for the country’s private sector. Beijing announced…


Pandemic Worker Regrets the Easing of the Lockdowns in China

Zhao Lei (pseudonym) has worked as an epidemic control worker wearing white protective clothing since June. Beijing’s sudden easing of COVID-19 prevention measures meant he was terminated from his job. To him, the preventive volunteer job was a temporary but quick way to make money. Zhao said he wanted to continue doing the job for…


China’s COVID Surge Leads Countries to Adopt Entry Restrictions

Nations around the world are implementing or considering entry restrictions for travelers coming from China as the country grapples with a surge in COVID-19 infections, with neighbors Japan and India imposing strict screening measures. In the first 20 days of December, 248 million people in China are estimated to have contracted COVID-19, officials said during…