Men in overalls transport a patient to Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital on December 13. REUTERSTV/Portal
DECREASING – The abrupt lifting of health restrictions in early December caused contamination to explode.
correspondent in Asia
“I’m too excited,” Han Song confesses to his millions of subscribers by posting the photo of his positive Covid test on the Weibo platform. “I would have been ashamed if I had remained negative,” ironically complained the science fiction author with a slight fever in Beijing. The author of decidedly nationalist bestsellers such as 2066: Red Star Over America, which recounts the decline of the United States in the face of a China-centric world, is not afraid to break the Covid taboo on his fans at a time when the world’s second-biggest economy of an unprecedented wave of infections after he abruptly lifted health restrictions in early December, the day after demonstrations against President Xi Jinping’s “zero Covid” strategy.
One by one, Chinese Internet celebrities share their health status and downplay a virus, which propaganda has presented as a “demon” for nearly three years, to a scared populace. “Why not…
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