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And unfortunately this is only the tip of the "iceberg".
Chinese authorities today apologized after the death of a three-year-old child who did not receive proper care in time due to strict health measures to contain COVID-19.
The so-called policy of zero cases of COVID-19 foresees isolation as soon as positive cases appear, mass testing, but also various degrees of lockdown, involving from neighborhoods to even entire cities.
Residents protest the measures, which sometimes cause food shortages and complicate access to health care for people who need it.
Images widely circulated on social media on Tuesday show residents of Lanzhou, in northwest China, desperately trying to revive a child after he suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.
In his message, his father complains about the delay in providing help and the fact that he could not leave his home due to the lockdown in the city. Residents expressed their anger.
Local police today released a detailed account of the events and expressed their "sincere condolences" to the parents.
" We sincerely accept the criticism as well as the scrutiny of the media and netizens (…) to prevent such accidents from happening again ," Lanzhou police also said in an unusual statement of regret.
The case caused a sensation at the beginning of the week and there was a wave of messages on the internet against the uncompromising policy of zero tolerance for COVID-19.
" His whole life was the three years of the pandemic ," wrote a netizen with the nickname Tuo, referring to the child's age.
This is the latest in a series of health emergencies that have been hampered by the zero-tolerance policy on COVID-19.
In the past month, the death of a 14-year-old girl, who did not receive treatment while in quarantine, sparked outrage in the country.
Internet censors quickly deleted all mention of the incident.
In January, a pregnant woman miscarried at the door of a hospital in Xi'an, northern China, due to the absence of a valid PCR test for the new coronavirus.
(APEBE – photo: pixabay)
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