The chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Wรบ Zลซnyวu ๅดๅฐๅ, said on Monday that he was optimistic that Beijing would have zero new infections of COVID-19 in roughly a week, as authorities continued to conduct citywide testing and cut chains of local transmission.
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Beijing struggles to reopen, but fine-tuned quarantine systems and contact tracing allow for rapid government response.
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Children in the Chinese capital were supposed to return to school today, but after a handful of COVID-19 cases were found on June 11 and 12, those plans were canceled. The China Project reported last week on all the ways the city went back into lockdown after nearly two coronavirus-free months, as soon as just three people were diagnosed with COVID-19.
A new Harvard study raises questions about the timing of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan. The study is still awaiting peer review, however, China's efforts to discredit the researchers' work show how science has become politicized amidst a global pandemic.
Chinaโs State Council Information Office has released a 37,000-word white paperย assessing their summary of the government's response to Covid-19. Their conclusion? The CCP outperformed its own propaganda.
According to Chinese officials, every resident of Wuhan over the age of six has now been tested for COVID-19--an extraordinary mass testing campaign that at first seemed unclearย and unfeasible, but soon became a reality
The Associated Press has published another report about the early days of Chinaโs coronavirus response that punctures Beijingโs official, sanitized narrativeย of a transparent and immediate response to the crisis.