Chinese authorities are in a tense atmosphere as residents protest against the zero corona policy in various places such as Beijing and Shanghai, China.
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As public protest slogans against the top leaders appeared, the authorities shifted responsibility to local governments and quickly evolved.
According to the state-run Global Times on the 28th, China's quarantine authorities, the National Health Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have dispatched working groups to supervise the COVID-19 quarantine situation to each local government.
Although the State Council of China announced 20 policies earlier this month, including shortening the quarantine period for close contacts and refraining from large-scale blockades under the name of 'scientific quarantine and precision quarantine', local governments did not properly implement them, and protests against the government policy were judged. interpreted as doing.
As a result, the working group will intensively inspect the local government's quarantine policy and correct the wrong policy, the newspaper explained.
Government-run media outlets that reflect the authorities' stance also launched support fires, emphasizing precision quarantine.
The People's Daily, the organ of the Chinese Communist Party, emphasized the need to implement the government's quarantine policy well through a commentary on the front page titled "Efficiency must be increased through scientific and precise quarantine."
The People's Daily said, "Measures to detect infected people in time, accurately determine close contacts, and properly determine risk zones are to preempt the baseline for infectious disease control." It has to be done with certainty,” he said.
"Each region and each department must break through the difficulties through more resolute and bold measures," he said.
The official Xinhua News Agency also emphasized in an editorial that the quarantine policy should not cause inconvenience to residents' lives, saying, "The only goal of the quarantine policy is to make the people happy and to protect everyone's health."
In relation to the recent apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang Urumqi, where 10 people died and 9 people were injured, it is interpreted to reflect the claim that the installations for blockade of the apartment block the rapid evolution and the damage has increased.
"Party committees and governments at all levels must raise the level of scientific quarantine and optimize zero-corona measures to minimize the impact of infectious diseases on public life," the KCNA said. We will meet the day we win.”
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