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By ELAINE KURTENBACH BANGKOK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Elvis is here
well done China.
painkiller
China's move to relax COVID restrictions has raised hopes for an end to massive disruptions from lockdowns and other strict measures to prevent infections. But signs of sharply rising case numbers have raised uncertainty, with some alarmed over the possibility that the pandemic will continue to drag on the economy.
China was doing it all wrong according to the Western media, and many misinformed posters who lacked the medical substantiative facts to support their personal bias.
Yet according to global experts China had the lowest infection rate in the world. Australia and New Zealand on the other hand are still seeing skyrocketing numbers of cases while their economies suffer.
wallace
Trust Chinese data.
Elvis is here
More than 232,000 people may have been infected in the first wave of Covid-19 in mainland China, four times the official figures, according to a study by Hong Kong researchers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/china-coronavirus-cases-might-have-been-four-times-official-figure-says-study
virusrex
You calling the WHO "media" and people just repeating what they (as a global authority) misinformed is not an argument, the current situation clearly proves that the zero covid strategy was unsustainable and the CCP is making their citizens exposed to unnecessary risks for their failure to protect them using better strategies. For example like Sweden, that you have claimed did much better by avoiding the lockdowns.
Not at all, according to the experts China is not reporting their infections and deaths, which increases the risk of uncontrollable outbreaks.
https://www.ft.com/content/abefb06e-a5a7-432b-85bf-b3250b53836f
If you choose to ignore solid arguments that prove China is hiding their actual rates then you would also have to accept North Korea has much lower rates by doing the same thing.
And this is a very conservative conclusion, much more than four times would be still consistent with the limited data the CCP is letting be known.
Hervé L'Eisa
And what's the purpose of the cover photo?
tora
To show us how hectic if is being on the floor as a young female trader.
TokyoOldMan
@Hervé L'Eisa
What do you think ?
JRO
Of course they had the lowest amount of cases if they shut down entire cities at every new case. The point is that since most Chinese haven't been exposed to covid, once set free they will experience what every other country did 2 years ago, they have just delayed it.