Although the Beijing regime is trying in every way to convey the idea of a problem-free country, autonomous and perfectly capable of dealing with the situation, what is happening in China these days is the clearest picture of the drama of the pandemic . After the very tight restrictions that lasted two years and the recent election of ‘All Free’ to avoid further disputes from citizens exhausted by an endless lockdown, Covid has started to sow panic and casualties across the country.
To the point that British medical analysis firm Airfinity estimates there are at least 11,000 deaths every day, compared to 1.8 million people catching Covid every day, with the disastrous prognosis, by the end of April 1.7 reach millions of victims. A massacre that is particularly dramatic in some cities. In Shanghai in particular, infections could already affect up to 70% of the population, with the incidence 20 to 30 times higher than the peak recorded between April and May, when everyone at home was closed. And the images arriving from Shanghai show how much the data is not based on air. Overcrowded hospitals, almost everywhere patients crammed together, especially older people lying on stretchers in the corridors of wards that can no longer take anyone.
Many are attached to drip or oxygen bottles, some appear to be deceased or have already died. Some are even treated outside the structure and placed on stretchers on the sidewalks in front because there is no more room inside. A dramatic situation that even the local authorities have to admit, albeit in a low voice, when they speak of a wave that is currently “impossible” to determine. Despite the central government’s persistent talk of just 15 victims since early December, an absolutely unreal and almost ridiculous number, in Shanghai alone, among other things one of China’s wealthiest cities, 18 million people would already have been infected in the last month, accounting for about 70% of the total population . And what emerges from the first confirmed data reinforces the thesis of enormous ongoing drama.
Local authorities in Zhejiang province, just on the border with Shanghai, estimated a million new cases a day last week. The city of Qingdao in the east of the country has reported 500,000 new infections a day, while Dongguan in the south is reporting 300,000 infections a day. In the island province of Hainan, the reported contagion rate would already affect 50% of residents, while in other cities the minimum rate of people with Covid is 30%. It is therefore inevitable that hospitals will be unable to accommodate all the sick with deaths that are patently underestimated in the figures leaking outside the regime’s official records. And that’s why China, political controversy aside, is once again scaring the world just when the emergency seemed like a very bad memory.