The Chinese administration’s ongoing cover-up puts the world at risk because it is impossible to track the spread of the virus, one expert said.
Doctors and residents across China continue to report more infections and deaths as the latest wave of Covid-19 continues, portraying a situation that is far more serious than the Chinese administration has allowed.
Schools in various states reportedly have suspended classes and placed students in quarantine, and concerns about a return to lockdown have risen, according to information provided on social media, in accordance with information provided in the Chinese version of the Epoch Times.
The notice said that third-year students have been ordered to quarantine for seven days after being diagnosed with Covid-19. After the quarantine period, students needed health certificates from the clinic and community health services agency to return to school.
Shaanxi and Jiangsu schools suspended classes after some students showed fever.
Official data from the Chinese Communist regime show that Covid-19 infection rates doubled in April, with 168,507 cases including 340 severe cases and nine deaths. The China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said the infection rate in China’s southern provinces is higher than in the northern provinces.
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Chinese national media Xinhua reported on May 28 that the upward trend in Covid-19 infections has slowed down, with most states having peaked or lowered, according to health authorities.
However, residents across the country said that things were much worse during the Epoch era and that official data did not continue to match their living experiences.
Due to the history of CCPs that covered information and published unreliable data, including underreporting Covid-19 infections and related deaths since early 2020, accounts from local doctors and residents can provide valuable information to understand the ground situation in totalitarian countries.
Kang Hong, a doctor at a clinic in Guangzhou, southern China, used the pseudonym for safety concerns, told the Epoch Times on May 29 that most people infected with Covid-19 in the wave are adults, although they also affect children.
“Their symptoms are much more severe than the cold,” he said. This includes white lung symptoms that are common in Covid-19 patients.
Kang said most patients came to the clinic because of colds and fever symptoms. He added that they have not been tested for Covid-19.
Also, many patients are reluctant to get Covid-19 tests, Kang said:
Kang revealed that the doctor at the tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, where her daughter works, has recently passed away from Covid-19. “It was a senior doctor who was only tested when his symptoms got worse and the outcome was Covid-19,” Kang said.
Kang said that while Covid-19 infections have risen, the local health department doesn’t need to report confirmed cases to doctors.
Li, a resident of Guangzhou, told the Epoch Times that he only gave his last name out of safety concerns and that there are many people around him who have cold symptoms, including his whole family. Lee said they had been diagnosed with Covid-19 a few times earlier, and believes their symptoms are another round of Covid-19.
Guo, a resident of neighboring Shenzhen city, said during the Epoch era, many people traveled on May holidays (from May 1 to May 1) and began to show cold symptoms that are likely to become Covid-19 later.
Meanwhile, residents of northern China also reported a surge in Covid-19 infections.
Liu Kun, the owner of a private clinic in Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia, who gave the pseudonym for safety concerns, told the Epoch Times on May 30 that the Covid-19 infection was ongoing.
He said there are many patients who say, “The symptoms last for a long time – people who last for months.” Based on the characteristics of the infectious disease, he predicted that “there is a possibility of explosive growth in June and July.”
Those wearing masks will wait on January 8, 2025 in the outpatient area of the respiratory department of a hospital in Beijing, China. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Xu, a resident of Leahong Province in Benxy city, told the Epoch Times that he only gave his last name due to safety concerns, and several of his friends and relatives recently caught a cold. “We have already realized that it could be Covid-19 caused by a mutated virus. The symptoms have been dragged out and have not been resolved. It cannot be cured by medication.”
He added that there were sudden deaths, particularly concentrated in people in their 40s and 50s.
The infection is also spreading rapidly in Shanghai, Luo, a resident of Changzhi city who gave only his last name, told the Epoch Times. “All of my family members, including my wife, daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter, are infected,” he said.
Fear of zero-covid restrictions
School suspensions and quarantines raised public concern that harsh zero-covid restrictions from the administration, adopted from 2020 to the end of 2022, have been locked down, mass testing is mandatory, travel is restricted, residents can be forced to quarantine centres and appear.
Dr. Jonathan Liu, director of the Liu’s Wisdom Healing Center and professor at Canadian Public University, told the Epoch Times on May 30 that mainland China is experiencing another wave of Covid-19 infections, but official data does not show a serious spread that requires city lockdowns.
“Following the ongoing strategy of cover-up, the Chinese administration does not want to close cities or implement zero-covid policies at this time, as it will have a serious impact on economic development. Stimulating economic development is now the administration’s top priority.”
Sean Lin, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Feitian College and a former US Army microbiologist, shares a similar assessment.
“The authorities will not immediately adopt lockdown measures as they know that implementing a strict zero-covid policy will cause a major backlash from the public,” Lynn told the Epoch Times on May 30.
“So, the government is currently building mobile cabin hospitals or temporary quarantine facilities in various regions to quietly take people away. There may not be any major changes to the policies announced to the public,” he said.
The Chinese version of the Epoch Times reported earlier this year that local governments are building large mobile cabin hospitals for patients with respiratory infections, including Covid-19, including the Xinjiang region and several states, according to insiders in some regions of China.
Employees work in a makeshift hospital used for Covid-19 coronavirus patients in Guangzhou, Eastern China on April 11, 2022 (according to AFP) / China Out
Lynn said some places may have adopted people staying at home for quarantine. “However, unless the administration is unstable and the authorities need to take such measures, it will not turn into a massive policy. We have not yet reached that point,” he said.
China CDC has yet to release Covid-19 data for May, but has updated its weekly flu report, which saw a significant increase in the number of infections this week.
According to the weekly flu report for the 21st week of epidemiology (May 19-25), released on May 29, a total of eight flu-like outbreaks have been reported nationwide. In comparison, only one influenza-like outbreak was reported nationwide in week 20, and no influenza-like outbreak was reported in week 19.
Lin said authorities continue to hide actual COVID data from China. “People don’t know the severity of the actual situation and the wave of outbreak, especially the severity and mortality rate. Authorities don’t tell people.”
He said the situation in China is more complicated and severe as not only this NB.1.8.1 strain, but multiple respiratory pathogens are infected simultaneously, with three or four respiratory pathogens infected at the same time.
NB.1.8.1
Chinese health officials announced on May 23 that Omicron variant NB.1.8.1 is now the major variant spreading across China as the detection of variants has increased in the international community.
NB.1.8.1 is the 6th generation sub-branch of the XDV variant.
“Current data do not show that the NB1.8.1 variant has a major breakthrough in pathogenicity, but it has almost 1.8 times improved its immune escape ability, as its transmission capacity improved when it replaced the previous dominant variant that caused Covid-19,” Lin said during the Epoch era.
He noted that new covid variants have appeared frequently over the past three years. “In many cases, new stocks quickly replace old stocks with dominant ones. This has become a routine.”
On December 22, 2021, you will receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
However, Lin said there are no signs of a ban on other countries on travelers or flights from China.
“According to current surveillance of countries around the world, there has been no rapid, massive growth in infectious diseases like in 2020.”
Lin said that “we cannot track the spread of the virus” because the Chinese administration has not revealed any true data.
“This also poses a greater risk,” he said. “China often covers a lot until they can no longer be covered. When they come out, the situation is already very serious and can get out of control. This is actually the biggest concern.”
Luo Ya, Fang Xiao and Xiong Bin contributed to this report.
