#WuhanPneumonia #CCPVaccine
#Brazil Health Regulator Condemns China For Not Being Transparent

Brazil health regulator #Anvisa releases a statement, criticising that China’s health authorities were not transparent and didn’t provide any information of the criteria for the approval of the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine developed by China SinoVac Biotech Ltd since June 2020.

China's #SinoVac is conducting the phase 3 tests in different locations, such as Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey, but it doesn’t publish any testing result and efficacy of the vaccine.

The vaccine trial had been suspended because one of the volunteers died. After investigation, the authorities claimed the cause of death was "not related" to the vaccine.

Source: NOW news #Dec15
https://news.now.com/home/international/player?newsId=416739

#Huawei #MengWanZhou Caught Wearing 'Made in Taiwan' Mask

//Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, appeared in a Canadian court on Dec 21, 2020.

Most notable to Taiwanese observers was the fact that she was wearing a purple surgical face mask with the words "Made in Taiwan" in plain sight on the lower righthand corner of the face covering.

The fact that she was wearing a mask manufactured in Taiwan was extraordinary given that Meng is at the eye of the storm for an intense geopolitical rivalry between China and the U.S. and its ally — Taiwan. Meng's company, which is a national champion for China and has numerous ties to the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) and People's Liberation Army (#PLA), has become a major target of sanctions and litigation by the Trump administration amid the trade war between the U.S. and China.//

Source: Taiwan News #Dec21

Read full article:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4019525

#WuhanPneumonia

#ThisisChina #Covid19
Chinese Netizens vow to kick “trouble-making Chinese patriots back to Hong Kong"

Amidst mounting COVID19 cases in Hong Kong, a group of around 60 Hong Kong citizens, claiming themselves to be “Chinese Patriots”, fled the city and sought “shelter” in China.

They were arranged to stay in a hotel in Longmen County in Huizhou for isolation. Although the hotel charged a substantially higher fee of $564 per night, its service level was said to be unacceptable.

On December 27, 2020, the group filed a complaint to Li Wei-wei, Huizhou City Party Secretary and their complaint letter, reprimanding poor service level of the quarantine hotel, was made public on WeChat.

The letter highlighted, "The Security guards threatened us with a baton; bugs and chicken feather were found in the food served; and no timely medical care was given to an injured young kid."

In less than a day, the complaint letter was removed on WeChat for suspected violation of the Cyber Security Law of the People's Republic of China.

The incident stirred a wave of criticism among netizens in China. Many questioned its validity, while others commented with hostilty: “Hong Kong people are too fond of making complaints”, “Prestigious Hong Kong people, you are not welcome”, “shall we jointly sign and kick these 60 people back to Hong Kong?”

Source: Stand News #Dec27

#CCP #China #Compatriots
#WuhanPneumonia

Wuhan Pneumonia - Tragic Wuhan style lockdown appeared in Sichuan, China; Chinese netizens were shocked: History repeated itself too soon

#Newspaper

(14 Dec) Wuhan Pneumonia (also known as COVID-19) spreads further in China and the situation is getting worse (instead of the fake official data by the Chinese government), shown by certain new lockdown policies by various local governments in China prohibiting people leaving their homes. In Sichuan, people in a blocked residential area sang in night together. The video was exposed to internet and many China netizens marvelled "history repeats itself so soon".

According to China Today, the Wuhan Pneumonia returned to Sichuan. In Chengdu, the Capital of Sichuan Province, while a residential area was blocked from any access for quarantine, the people sang loudly at night from their balconies and windows under the shining lights. The most interesting was that, they were singing songs from Taiwan.

After the video was exposed to the internet, many Chinese netizens were surprised such familiar picture happened again so shortly - this was the exact picture in Wuhan, the first place being locked by the CCP in early 2020. At that time, many Wuhan people started by quarantining at home and singing at night, but were eventually found died at their apartments. "The Sichuan is repeating what exactly happened in Wuhan, shortly. History always repeats itself", "it's terrible (just waiting to die like this), this does not even happen in America where hundreds of thousands of people died", "it was really like the screams by ghosts or spirits. To be honest, I’d rather quarantine at home quietly", commented by those netizens.

Source: The Liberty Times

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#WuhanPneumonia #Conorvirus #LockDown #Sichuan #HistoryRepeated

#WuhanPneumonia #Death
Serbian Pilot Who Welcomes Chinese Medical Workers Dies of #Covid19

It has been almost one year since Wuhan pneumonia broke out first in China and then across the world. #Serbia is one of those countries who have believed "China can help".

In March 2019, the country invited Chinese medical personnel to take part in their fight against the coronavirus. Back then, the pilot Svetislav Vranic who had flown the Chinese medical workers into Serbia waved the Chinese flag outside the aircraft.

However, Vranic died of coronavirus on the Christmas eve, December 24, 2020.

Source: Apple Daily #Dec26
http://tw.appledaily.com/international/20201226/VJ62YQMRW5BOFG36UYFEMBICWI/

#SvetislavVranic #ChineseFlag

#WuhanPneumonia #MadeinChina
China-Made #CoronaVac Only Scores 50% in General Efficacy Test

The Butantan Institute in Brazil announced that the China-made CoronaVac vaccine has a 50 percent general efficacy rate in late-stage trials. 

Reuters described the results as disappointing. The rate means that CoronaVac is only 50 percent effective when preventing patients from contracting mild cases of coronavirus.

Although the minimum target set by the World Health Organisation is 50 percent, the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine is way behind the vaccines produced by Moderna at 94 percent and Pfizer/BioNTech at 95 percent.

Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Jan13

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1570113-20210113.htm

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20210113/NEWV4SZV4NDVDO67XEBGGWPBUA/

#Documentary #WuhanPneumonia
Wuhan medics undercover: 'We were told to lie about Covid-19 outbreak'

//Chinese medics have been filmed undercover for the first time admitting they realised coronavirus could be transmitted between humans but were told by the government to keep quiet.

Senior medics in Wuhan who witnessed some of the first cases of the virus were secretly filmed by a citizen journalist for an ITV documentary.

The medics said they were in no doubt how dangerous the virus was and that they were aware of deaths as early as the end of December 2019.

One said: "Actually, at the end of December or beginning of January, the relative of someone I know died of this virus.

"Many of those living with him were also infected, including people I know."

Another said: "We all felt there shouldn’t be any doubt about human to human transmission."//

Read the full article:
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-01-18/wuhan-medics-undercover-we-were-told-to-lie-about-covid-19-outbreak

Source: itv #Jan18

#Covid19 #CCP

#LastYearToday
One Year Since the Death of #Covid19 #Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang in China

One year ago on Feb 6, 2020, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, died of the coronavirus in China.

At the first epicenter of the coronavirus in China, he revealed news of the outbreak of #WuhanPneumonia on Chinese social media platform as early as on December 30, 2019. He was later arrested by the Chinese Communist Party government for "publishing false statements."

On February 1, 2020, he announced himself having contracted the coronavirus. The news of his death was covered up and announced only later by the Chinese authorities, in order to control the emotion of the population.

While the #CCP accused Dr.Li of being a "rumour monger" when he was alive, the Chinese authorities chaged their narrative and praised him after his death.

Source: Stand News #Feb6

#CCPLies

WHO Experts Visit Market in Wuhan to Trace the Pandemic’s Origin, Reporters Shut Out by Chinese Authorities

As the Wuhan virus pandemic enters its second year, a group of specialists sent by the WHO arrived in Wuhan on 14 January to investigate the pandemic’s origin. During their visit to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market on 31 January, local authorities cordoned off the market with water-filled barriers with officers standing in front of reporters to keep them out.

Footage by Reuters show that a number of officers stopped reporters and other people from following vehicles that carried the WHO specialists into the market and set up barriers on the perimeter. The specialists, wearing visitor badges, did not respond to questions from reporters when they got out of their cars. They also visited the Jinyintan Hospital, where early Wuhan disease patients had been treated, and exhibitions showcasing efforts to combat the pandemic that day.

Source: Stand News #Jan31

#China #WHO #Wuhan #WuhanVirus #WuhanPneumonia #COVID19 #Pandemic

https://bit.ly/3oR2D6V

Businessman from China Exempted from Quarantine in Hong Kong Confirmed with Coronavirus

A 39-year-old businessman exempted from quarantine in Hong Kong has been confirmed positive after he arrived in Hong Kong from China. However, the Department of Health in Hong Kong did not take an initiative to mention this case at the press conference.

Dr. Chuang Shuk-Kwan, Head of Communicable Disease Branch spoke about the case after being continuously questioned by the media.

The patient, who was exempted from compulsory quarantine, lives in Shenzhen and arrived in Hong Kong on January 23, 2021. He started to get sick on January 30.

The patient has not been to Hong Kong for one year and has been working in China. The Hong Kong government official pointed out that “he has a company in Hong Kong, but it seems that he hasn’t been going to work there”.

The Department of Health said they will communicate with Chinese health authorities since the process to trace his previous activity in China needs to be carried out by them.

The patient was tested negative in China on January 21, 2021 and showed symptoms of a headache on Jan 30. He was confirmed positive on February 3. He was in Hong Kong from January 23 until the onset of his illness.

The man has shopped at Citygate in Tung Chung and did not do any other activities. He was in Shenzhen during the other half of his incubation period.

Chuang explained that “[The patient] spent half the [incubation] period in Shenzhen and half in Hong Kong. We decided to treat it as a 'local case' since there are many cases in Hong Kong but very few in China.”

Source: Apple Daily #Feb6
#ConfirmedCases #QuarantineExemption #WuhanPneumonia #COVID19 #Pandemic

#Covid19 #Pandemic
#US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from #Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt

//US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus -- as soon as they can decipher it.

This giant catalog of information contains genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the lab in Wuhan, China which some officials believe may have been the source of the Covid-19 outbreak, multiple people familiar with the matter tell CNN...

Officials conducting the 90-day review hope this information will help answer the question of how the virus jumped from animals to humans. Unlocking that mystery is essential to ultimately determining whether Covid-19 leaked from the lab or was transmitted to humans from animals in the wild...

Investigators both inside and outside the government have long sought genetic data from 22,000 virus samples that were being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That data was removed from the internet by Chinese officials in September 2019, and China has since refused to turn over this and other raw data on early coronavirus cases to the World Health Organization and the US.

The question for investigators is whether the WIV or other labs in China possessed virus samples or other contextual information that could help them trace the coronavirus' evolutionary history.

For now, senior intelligence officials still say that they are genuinely split between the two prevailing theories on the pandemic's origins, or some combination of both scenarios. CNN reported last month that senior Biden administration officials overseeing the 90-day review now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild -- a dramatic shift from a year ago, when Democrats publicly downplayed the so-called lab leak theory.//

Source: CNN #Aug5

Read full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/covid-origins-genetic-data-wuhan-lab/index.html

#CovidOrigin #MadeinChina #Investigation #WuhanPneumonia #WuhanLab

#Pandemic
#China locks down millions more as #Covid19 spreads, reports first deaths in over a year

//More than 4,000 new infections were reported across China on Sunday, March 20, 2022 — with two-thirds in #Jilin province, which borders Russia and North Korea.

Since March 11, Changchun’s nine million people have only been allowed out once every two days to buy food.

Tens of millions of people are currently in lockdown in other Chinese regions and authorities are scrambling to create hospital beds, fearing the outbreak could put the healthcare system under strain.//

Read the full article:
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/20/china-locks-down-millions-more-as-covid-spreads-reports-first-deaths-in-over-a-year/

Source: AFP; Hong Kong Free Press #Mar20

#WuhanPneumonia #Lockdown

#Shanghai starts China's biggest #COVID19 lockdown in 2 years; residents call it "insane"

Although Chinese officials said lockdown would not be imposed on #Shanghai, two days later the authorities announced that the city will be locked down in two stages from Monday, March 28, 2022 onwards for nine days.

According to BBC, this is the biggest city-wide #lockdown since the Covid outbreak began more than two years ago.

Soon after the government's announcement was out, panic buying occured in various parts of Shanghai.

Videos on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, showed people fighting in supermarket over produce. Some Chinese netizens commented that it was "unbelievable that they are looking at 21st-Century Shanghai" and that the policy was "insane".

Source: InMedia; BBC #Mar28
https://bit.ly/380pPwx

#WuhanPneumonia #ChineseStyle #Lockdown #Pandemic #Regime

Voices of April: Video Protesting Shanghai Lockdown Goes Viral in China, Despite Chinese Censors

On April 22, A 6-minute protest video about Shanghai's locked-down residents went viral on Chinese social media.

The video featured audio snippets from various videos recorded in #Shanghai throughout April, when the city was plunged into a month-long #COVID lockdown since late March. The recordings, played over black-and-white drone footage of the city, documented the residents' ordeal over the past month: food and supply shortages, quarantine separating parents from their children, pets being beaten to death, hospitals turning away patients, makeshift hospitals missing essential supplies and even lacking a roof, and so on.

China's government censors moved quickly to block the video, but netizens continued to tenaciously spread the video on social media and instant messaging platforms in China.

Netizens have added English translations and reposted the video on Youtube. Watch here: (turn on English captions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWW6r2iOwzU

For a more detailed recap of the video, see also:
The Voices of April – The Short Online Life of a Shanghai Protest Video
https://www.whatsonweibo.com/the-voices-of-april-the-short-online-life-of-a-shanghai-protest-video/

The video ends with a simple message for the city's suffering residents: "Shanghai, get well soon."

#HumanitarianCrisis #ShanghaiLockdown #PoliceState #WuhanPneumonia

Source:
Zoanhae Vision 上海眼界 Youtube channel, What's On Weibo

#ShanghaiLockdown
Shanghai Violinist Leaped to his Death after COVID Restrictions Denied him Medical Assistance

71-year-old amateur violinist Chen Shunping, who lived in #Shanghai, had taken his own life after being denied medical help for his suspected pancreatitis during the city's month-long lockdown. He was a member of the Shanghai Pops Orchestra.

Three #COVID19 deaths had been recorded [Ed: as of April 18] since Shanghai's lockdown began in late March, all of whom were seniors with chronic illnesses.

However, reports often surfaced on Chinese social media surrounding deaths of patients not being able to get medical treatment.

According to chat messages from Chen's family, he began to feel unwell in the evening of April 13, with stomach pains and vomiting; from experience, he suspected it was pancreatitis.

His family called an ambulance, who took Chen to two separate hospitals, but both turned him away, citing COVID restrictions. Unable to endure the severe pain, Chen left suicide notes for his family before leaping to his death from his apartment.

Chen's wife was stricken with grief as she remembered him as a cheerful and kind man, with a passion for life and music: "This society had taken an ordinary, lively man and pushed him to his death!"

His death also sparked outcry online; netizens commented that he "didn't get COVID, but died because of COVID."

A separate incident of a pregnant Shanghai woman who died from blood loss during a premature birth also circulated on social media. Shanghai police quickly refuted it as "fake news", announcing that the woman successfully gave birth to twins, and that they had arrested the spreader of the rumor.

Netizens were quick to react: "Why don't you refute Chen Shunping's fake news?" "Chen's case still hasn't been refuted, so it must be true."

Source: In-Media HK
https://bit.ly/3OeDLUx

#HumanitarianCrisis #WuhanPneumonia #ChenShunPing

#ShanghaiLockdown
Shanghai Violinist Leaped to his Death after COVID Restrictions Denied him Medical Assistance

71-year-old amateur violinist Chen Shunping, who lived in #Shanghai, had taken his own life after being denied medical help for his suspected pancreatitis during the city's month-long lockdown. He was a member of the Shanghai Pops Orchestra.

Three #COVID19 deaths had been recorded [Ed: as of April 18] since Shanghai's lockdown began in late March, all of whom were seniors with chronic illnesses.

However, reports often surfaced on Chinese social media surrounding deaths of patients not being able to get medical treatment.

According to chat messages from Chen's family, he began to feel unwell in the evening of April 13, with stomach pains and vomiting; from experience, he suspected it was pancreatitis.

His family called an ambulance, who took Chen to two separate hospitals, but both turned him away, citing COVID restrictions. Unable to endure the severe pain, Chen left suicide notes for his family before leaping to his death from his apartment.

Chen's wife was stricken with grief as she remembered him as a cheerful and kind man, with a passion for life and music: "This society had taken an ordinary, lively man and pushed him to his death!"

His death also sparked outcry online; netizens commented that he "didn't get COVID, but died because of COVID."

A separate incident of a pregnant Shanghai woman who died from blood loss during a premature birth also circulated on social media. Shanghai police quickly refuted it as "fake news", announcing that the woman successfully gave birth to twins, and that they had arrested the spreader of the rumor.

Netizens were quick to react: "Why don't you refute Chen Shunping's fake news?" "Chen's case still hasn't been refuted, so it must be true."

Source: In-Media HK
https://bit.ly/3OeDLUx

#HumanitarianCrisis #WuhanPneumonia #ChenShunPing

Studies point to China's #HuananMarket as #epicenter of #Covid19, wildlife trade associated

The following is excerpted from a statement released by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (#AAAS), which is the publisher of the peer-reviewed journal "Science", on July 26, 2022:

//Two studies published in #Science by #MichaelWorobey et al. and #JonathanPekar et al. use complementary approaches – involving spatial and environmental analyses, as well as molecular analyses – to provide evidence that the Huanan market in #Wuhan, China, was the early epicenter for the COVID-19 #pandemic.

The scientists concluded that SARS-CoV-2 was very likely present in live mammals sold at this market in late 2019 and suggest the virus spilled over into people working or shopping there ... //

Read more:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/959879

Source: AAAS; Canada TV #Jul27

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/studies-suggest-covid-19-likely-emerged-from-wuhan-market-1.6003139

#WuhanPneumonia

Surveillance for All: China Pushes for Permanent Health Code by 2025

Source: Radio Free Asia #Nov10

#CCP #SurveillanceState #WuhanPneumonia #HealthCode #BigData #BigBrother

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Surveillance for All: China Pushes for Permanent Health Code by 2025

Although the #WHO had clearly stated that there had been a drastic 90% decrease in COVID deaths across the world, China had not embraced this optimistic view. Instead, it has declared a goal of making the Health QR Code mandatory for everyone in the country by 2025, enforcing a long-term, real-time surveillance for its citizens.

On Nov 9, The National Health Commission of China announced on its website that by 2025, every Chinese citizen will have a dynamically-managed electronic health file and a fully-functional electronic health code. The announcement is jointly published by the National Health Commission, State Administration of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the announcement, the health code systems currently in use are run by each province separately, and the systems from different provinces do not generally recognize each other's codes. In response, the central government aims to create a basic, inter-connected surveillance platform by 2025, in which each resident will have a dynamically-managed electronic health file and a fully-functional electronic health code.

With such a system in place, the Chinese government will be able to leverage big data to trace the so-called "high-risk individuals", establishing a long-term, real-time surveillance and control of the Chinese populace.

Source: Radio Free Asia #Nov10

https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/code-11102022062758.html

see also:
"Encode us": Health Code, or is it CCP's Social Credit System? (Aug 17, 2020)
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/24283

#CCP #SurveillanceState #WuhanPneumonia #HealthCode #BigData #BigBrother

China is set to open reopen its borders on January 8 after scrapping its draconian zero-COVID strategy as large-scale outbreaks sweep through its population.

WHO criticized the nation of 1.4 billion for under-representing the severity of its outbreak, calling China's data "incomplete".

Many countries have since imposed restrictions on travellers from China, a response the WHO has called "understandable". The list of countries continues to be growing.

source:

Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/2/which-countries-have-placed-covid-curbs-on-travellers-from-china

Time
https://time.com/6243967/covid-travel-restrictions-china/

#ChinaReopening #WuhanPneumonia #COVID19 #TravelRestriction