Sick Man of Asia

31/12/2022

Los Angeles will start testing Chinese for covid-19 before they are allowed to enter the US. This is going to start in a week or so. Thousands of Chinese people are already entering the US and knowing how fast a virus can spread, hundreds of thousands of Californians could be infected in one week. Nice going China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1UthxYDmQ
US imposes new travel restrictions to contain COVID-19 spread
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US imposes new travel restrictions to contain COVID-19 spread
The CDC announced that people coming from China, Hong Kong and Macau must test negative before entering the U.S.WATCH FULL EPISODES OF WORLD NEWS TONIGHT:htt...

The CDC announced that people coming from China, Hong Kong and Macau must test negative before entering the U.S.WATCH FULL EPISODES OF WORLD NEWS TONIGHT:htt...

31/12/2022

This is not good. We don't want infected people flying around the world and infecting other people. Not good. If I was a flight attendant or airport personnel working with Chinese flights, I would be concerned.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/28/half-of-the-passengers-on-2-flights-from-china-had-covid/

Travelers headed to Italy from China will now be required to test for COVID, health authorities said on Wednesday, just days after half of the passengers on two separate flights to Milan tested pos…

29/12/2022

After thousands of infected Chinese died in one day from covid-19, which originated in China, the US bans Chinese people from entering freely into the United States.

From Financial Times:
US to require negative Covid tests for air passengers from China

https://www.ft.com/content/ab66734d-af9e-4f65-a724-e2994c25ad78

Italy also imposes restrictions after surge in cases following end of Beijing’s containment policy

29/12/2022

Japan refuses to allow Chinese from China into Japan after China's irresponsible decision to allow virus-stricken Chinese to travel outside China.

Smart move.

From Reuters:
Japan to require negative COVID test upon arrival for Chinese travelers

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-require-negative-covid-test-upon-arrival-chinese-travellers-fnn-2022-12-27/.

Japan will require a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival for travellers from mainland China due to the rapid spread of the virus in the country, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday.

29/12/2022

Unlike other advanced nations, China has failed to produce an effective vaccine, which shows China is not the superpower it thinks it is.

From the NY Times:
“If they were to publicize the death figure, it would amount to a big blow to the prestige of the party,” said W***y Lam, an expert in Chinese politics at the Jamestown Foundation, a research group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/world/asia/china-covid-death-toll.html

China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.

29/12/2022

China is embarrassed by its failure.

From NY Times:
China’s government is painting a less dire picture. In its official statistics and propaganda reports, China has acknowledged only seven deaths from Covid in the past two weeks, and only in Beijing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/world/asia/china-covid-death-toll.html

29/12/2022

China unable to cope with virus from Wuhan:

From NY Times:
A country trying to mourn its dead from an explosive Covid outbreak is grappling with a system unprepared for the surge in fatalities. Two weeks after China abruptly abandoned its “zero Covid” policy, cases have soared in cities like Beijing, along with reports of people dying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/world/asia/china-covid-death-toll.html

China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.

29/12/2022

Death toll keeps rising.

The hearses bearing black and yellow funeral paper flowers crept in a steady stream toward the Dongjiao crematory in eastern Beijing. Several dozen people crowded around the closed gate waiting to be let in. A man unable to get a spot in line could only watch, wondering what to do with the body of a relative who had just died of Covid.

The hospital could not keep the body — there were already too many in its morgue. When he called the crematory, an employee told him he had to wait a week. When he called again, nobody answered.

From NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/world/asia/china-covid-death-toll.html

China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.

29/12/2022

Chinese suffering painful reality of the virus from Wuhan China.

From NY Times:
The hearses bearing black and yellow funeral paper flowers crept in a steady stream toward the Dongjiao crematory in eastern Beijing. Several dozen people crowded around the closed gate waiting to be let in. A man unable to get a spot in line could only watch, wondering what to do with the body of a relative who had just died of Covid.

29/12/2022

As Cases Explode, China’s Low Covid Death Toll Convinces No One

China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.

https://www.facebook.com/Sick-Man-of-Asia-110817878556697

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