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China’s Response to Surging COVID-19 Crisis Echoes Wuhan: Chinese Dissident

The CCP has turned back the clock to 'Wuhan in early 2020'

China’s Response to Surging COVID-19 Crisis Echoes Wuhan: Chinese Dissident
Medical personnel walking among patients with mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus resting at night in the temporary Hospital set up in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on Feb. 18, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Sophia Lam
Sophia Lam
12/30/2022|Updated: 12/30/2022
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Online posts show that China’s major cities have been hit hard by the recent pandemic outbreak, following the sudden end of China’s strict COVID-19 containment measures. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Corpses are piled up in mortuaries. Long queues of hearses are waiting outside crematories.

“After three years of stringent zero-COVID policies, the CCP has turned the whole country into Wuhan in early 2020,” Zhao Lanjian, a Chinese dissident and former investigative reporter, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Dec. 26.

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Sophia Lam joined The Epoch Times in 2021 and covers China-related topics.
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