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Online Outrage after Pet Dog Gets Killed by Anti-Epidemic Workers in Shangrao
Outrage over pets killed in “zero-COVID” fervor: What’s on Weibo reports, “A pet dog was killed by anti-epidemic workers in Shangrao [in Jiangxi Province] this week while its owner was undergoing quarantine at a nearby hotel. Chinese netizens are outraged, not only about the dog being killed during extreme efforts to contain COVID-19, but also about the seemingly cold response of local authorities after it happened.” SupChina reported on a similar incident and outcry in Harbin, Heilongjiang, in September.
China’s debt crisis unlikely to infect global markets, JP Morgan boss says
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is unbothered by real estate contagion risk in China, “geopolitical winds” in the U.S.-China relationship, and, apparently, COVID-19 protocols. In a visit to Hong Kong, Dimon “expressed confidence in mainland China’s economy” and “was exempted from the city’s stringent quarantine measures,” the SCMP reports. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥 Lín Zhèng Yuè’é) brushed off criticism of the quarantine exemption: “After all, it is a very large bank, which has important business in the city.”
Chinese Journalist Who Reported From Wuhan Is Gravely Ill After Prison Hunger Strike
Imprisoned citizen journalist Zhāng Zhǎn 张展 is “gravely ill after going on a hunger strike, according to her family and attorney,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Zhang was initially detained in May 2020, and later convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in December 2020 for her reporting from Wuhan in the early days of COVID-19 and criticism of the government’s response. The U.S. State Department and Human Rights Watch have called for her immediate release, per the New York Times.
China’s census accuracy faces reality check amid Covid-19 vaccinations, tests
Are COVID-19 testing and vaccine records more accurate than the census? China bluntly denied Financial Times reporting from April this year that the country’s 2020 census was set to show a population decline had already occurred. The actual census results, released in May, showed a population still growing, but at its slowest rate in six decades. At the South China Morning Post, Zhou Xin writes that two cases of COVID-19 mass testing and vaccine campaigns appear to show a smaller, and more accurate “permanent residents” number than the census for those local governments. Zhou writes that this lends “credence to a long-standing suspicion that local governments tend to over-report their populations in censuses by including people who no longer reside there, because certain government subsidies are allocated based on the number of local people.”
China Redefines Close Contacts so People Nearly 1 Kilometer Away Count
Tracking cell signal overlaps to enforcing COVID zero: Back in June, Chinese health officials coped with the country’s first Delta-driven spike of the virus by expanding the definition of a “close contact.” Now the criteria have been expanded again: Bloomberg reports that although policies vary by region, if one person’s cell phone has a “spacial-temporal overlap” (时空重合) with the phone of someone who is COVID-positive, they could be flagged for testing or quarantine — even if the two people never met in person.
China Locks Hundreds of Students in School After Teacher Gets Covid
Beijing school COVID lockdown: “Parents gathered outside a primary school in Beijing late into the night on Monday, anxiously waiting for their children who’d been caught in a snap lockdown triggered by a teacher being diagnosed with COVID-19,” report Bloomberg and the Guardian.
Top Infectious Disease Expert Defends China’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy Against Criticism It’s Too Costly
A high-profile defense of China’s “COVID zero” policy: Zhōng Nánshān 钟南山, one of the nation’s most prominent public health figures, argued in a CGTN interview (in Chinese) that China’s strict virus control measures are “not too costly when it comes to sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks, and in fact costs less than treating patients after they’ve been infected,” Caixin reports.
Opinion: Excessive Measures to Contain Covid Are Doing More Harm Than Good
Epidemic prevention officials should stick to promoting tried-and-true methods like mask mandates and limits on public gatherings, rather than resorting to novel tactics that accomplish very little
Rare plea for help as China's zero tolerance for COVID hits border town
A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a "strong" helping hand from Beijing.
China plans to let vaccinated athletes skip quarantine at the Winter Olympics.
COVID quarantine exceptions for Olympic athletes: A “COVID zero” policy with strict travel and quarantine requirements remains in place in China, and nowhere else in the world, because the “government has staked its political legitimacy on controlling the virus better than other countries, especially its geopolitical rivals,” the New York Times writes. But after pushback from the IOC and various national Olympic committees, Chinese officials today announced that athletes for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics “will be able to skip quarantine if they are fully vaccinated.”
关于延期举办2021年10月证券业从业人员资格考试的公告
China cancels foreign tests: Beijing has suspended some foreign countries’ exams for October and November, including the GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, and other language tests — ostensibly due to a COVID-19 spike.
China locks down city of 4m people after six Covid cases detected
Residents in Lanzhou, Gansu, told to stay at home as buses, taxis and key rail routes suspended
China locks down a northwestern city to subdue a small outbreak.
Lanzhou, with about four million people, reported six new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, and a total of 39 over the past week.
Beijing Marathon postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19
The Beijing Marathon has been postponed indefinitely after Sunday's race was called off amid rising COVID-19 cases in China, the BBC quoted organisers as saying.
Hong Kong to tighten COVID-19 rules, hopes China reopens
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite a lack of local outbreaks to better align with China’s policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland, leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday.
Hong Kong’s Covid-Zero Strategy to Stay Despite Global Banks Pleas
Hong Kong’s government said it will stick to its “zero infection” strategy on Covid-19, rebuffing a plea from global banks for the city to ease its strict quarantine policy and set a clearer time-line for a return to normal or risk its status as a center for international business.
Why China’s Covid-19 anti-vaxxers are happy to take their chances
The country’s inoculation drive has reached most of its population, but some are adamant they will not take part, citing doubts about safety, efficacy or need.
China strengthens land border protection with new law
China passed a law on Saturday to strengthen border protection amid a protracted standoff with India, worries about spillover effects from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the spread of COVID-19 from Southeast Asia.
科興指接種第三針疫苗後 有症狀感染保護率增至逾八成
Third’s the charm: A third dose of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine increases its protection rate for symptomatic cases from 56% to 80.2%, according to Chile’s government.
China urges ‘objective, scientific’ focus for WHO’s next Covid-19 origins hunt
Foreign ministry vows country will ‘continue to support and participate in’ global origins tracing, and ‘oppose any political manipulation’.
