Chinese president Xi Jinping (File pic)
Beijing [China ], Mar 31 (ANI): All countries around the globe today are reeling under coronavirus, with at least seven lakh people being infected and over 37,000 deaths due to the highly contagious bug.
But China , among all the others, is the only one to have announced that no new cases of the infection have been reported since last week. Catholic Answers Forum, a non-profit organisation, in one of its report, titled “China Is Pushing a ‘Zero’ Myth on COVID-19,” said that “Zero” — the goal of reducing the number of cases of the novel coronavirus to zero, officially known as COVID-19 and believed to have originated in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in central China –has become a new narrative of President Xi Jinping.
“Reaching ‘zero’ is crucial to achieving his broader goal of global leadership and domination,” the report said. It added, “Xi must show the world that the totalitarian Chinese political system is vindicated by the defeat of the virus. The truth about COVID-19 inside China is the greatest obstacle to his ambition.”
In order to hide the actual figures, China has also expelled reporters working for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. The regime has clamped down increasingly on independent journalists as its domestic practices have become increasingly inhumane, especially with respect to its repression of religious minorities, including Uighur Muslims, who have been subjected to mass internment, the report stated.
The ‘Zero campaign’ depends on censorship and makes it “a universal political obligation for Chinese citizens to collectively deny their own public-health crisis.” That China ‘s health statistics are manipulated for the Communist Party’s political benefit is not news, the report added further. The evidence they present about COVID-19 contradicts official narratives.
Stories on Chinese social media, censored or removed almost as soon as they appear, reveal how local governments cover up new cases and how hospitals are ordered to report new cases as normal flu or pneumonia. The stories indicate that Hubei Province, far from moving toward normality, is being locked down again by people and police in the surrounding provinces who know the real situation in Hubei.
One video showed a riot that occurred when Hubei police tried to open the border with Jiangxi — people and police in Jiangxi revolted because they would be exposed to Hubei. “The government brags about mass recoveries from the virus, but independent media have reported that up to 14 per cent of those have tested positive again.
The regime appears to be cooking the books on epidemiological statistics, to be not counting cases in which tests indicate infection but people are asymptomatic. Censors almost immediately removed a photo from the Caixin website showing a truck delivering 2,500 urns filled with the ashes of cremated people.
Censors removed as well as an accompanying report that a truck had made another such delivery the same day,” the report said. In the past, the Chinese Communist Party’s restrictions on the free flow of information seemed to be a matter mainly concerning the freedom of the Chinese people.
But the regime’s distortions of the truth has now became more than abstract problems for the international community. They have become a threat to the global public health — indeed, matters of life and death, the report stressed. (ANI)
China’s notorious ‘wet markets’ have reopened — selling bats, pangolins and dogs for human consumption/
And China’s deadly ‘wet markets’ are back
Washington DC [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): China ‘s notorious ‘wet markets’ have reopened — selling bats, pangolins and dogs for human consumption.
The move is dangerous as scientists believe that the Covid-19 causing coronavirus first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans. Various reports suggest that a 55-year-old man from China ‘s Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 through one such ‘wet market’.
“The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus,” Washington Examiner quoted a correspondent of ‘A Mail on Sunday’ as saying. However, the markets are under watchful eyes of guards, who ensure no one is able to take pictures of the blood-soaked floors, slaughtering of dogs and rabbits, and scared animals cramped in cages.
Huanan Seafood Market in China ‘s Wuhan is believed to be the epicentre of coronavirus, which swept the world, engulfing millions as far as the United States and killing nearly 38,000 people. “The evidence is highly suggestive that the outbreak is associated with exposures in one seafood market in Wuhan,” the World Health Organisation had said in a statement on January 12.
Four months on, the pandemic seems to be far from over even as Beijing celebrates victory over coronavirus with no vaccination insight for the pathogen, which many people worldwide call Wuhan virus or Chinese virus. “Everyone here believes the outbreak is over and there’s nothing to worry about anymore. It’s just a foreign problem now as far as they are concerned,” a China -based correspondent was quoted by Washington Examiner.
Several scientists, medical experts and animal rights activists have called for a ban on China’s wet markets but the Asian country seems to have not leant from its mistakes. (ANI)Â
