One of China’s top epidemiologists surfaced in an interview on Sunday warning that “it is not yet the time” to lift Chinese coronavirus civil rights restrictions fully, following weeks of Communist Party announcements that its brutal lockdown measures would soon “ease.”
Chinese state media on Tuesday reportedly deleted an article published on Monday in which China’s top coronavirus expert, Zhong Nanshan, argued that China needs to abandon the ruling Communist Party’s Chinese coronavirus policy of “zero-Covid” and join the rest of the world in “reopening” to live a post-pandemic life, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
The Chinese propaganda site Global Times regaled former NBA star Stephon Marbury with an extensive profile on Wednesday after Marbury, who has lived in China for 11 years, excitedly praised China’s “hospitality,” applauded top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, and predicted the 2022 Beijing Olympics would be “extraordinary.
The Communist Party of China cited several alleged “experts” in its state-run press on Sunday to preemptively declare its policies against the latest Chinese coronavirus “variant of concern,” Omicron, a success even as Beijing struggles to contain an increasingly severe outbreak of the currently prevalent Delta variant.
Chinese public health officials identified two outbreaks of Chinese coronavirus in the eastern provinces of Liaoning and Anhui — about 900 miles away from each other — on Sunday, once again calling into question Beijing’s claims that it has subdued the pandemic.
China’s top infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan warned once again on Thursday that the Communist Party’s efforts to vaccinate its citizens against Chinese coronavirus are “lagging” behind countries like the United States and Israel.
China risks falling behind other countries in terms of Chinese coronavirus inoculation due to low levels of enthusiasm for the state’s coronavirus vaccine program, a Chinese medical expert warned on Saturday.
Public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci will appear in a discussion alongside Chinese scientist Zhong Nanshan — who claimed last year the Chinese coronavirus originated not in Wuhan, China, but in “multiple birthplaces around the globe” at an online public health forum for the University of Edinburgh in March, Chinese media outlets reported this week.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and two of the top doctors working under his Communist Party made the cut for Time magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in 2020, published on Tuesday.
