Despite efforts by top communist officials to protect Beijing from the novel coronavirus outbreak at all costs, COVID-19 is rapidly spreading throughout the city, and a number of hospitals located in the Xicheng District are treating people who have become infected through person-to-person transmission. The Xicheng District is home to the Zhongnanhai compound that houses the offices of top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.
The director of internal medicine at a hospital in Beijing, using the alias Hou Yong, said that it’s the corruption and incompetence of the CCP that has led to the outbreak of the disease, and medical staff sent to Wuhan by the CCP are being used as cannon fodder. He also revealed that recent confirmed cases in a local hospital are “very serious.”Official Infected Patient Count at Beijing Hospitals
At a Feb. 20 press conference on coronavirus prevention and control in Beijing, Li Dongxia, president of Fuxing Hospital, announced that 34 infected patients had been confirmed at Fuxing Hospital as of 6 a.m., that day.Liu Xiaoguang, deputy director of the medical department of Peking University, also announced at the press conference that Peking University People’s Hospital had three confirmed cases and placed 22 people under intensive medical observation.
