Confusion over a few words from a senior Communist Party official about the ‘zero cases’ policy in Beijing

June 27. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The head of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Cai Qi, assured this Monday in a Chinese state media that the policy of ‘zero cases’, claimed by President Xi Jinping, would be maintained in Beijing “for the next five years”, some statements that were later deleted due to the alarm and confusion caused in social networks.

After the country has recorded its worst data of the entire pandemic in recent months, the ‘zero case’ policy has begun to be applied in China, and involves applying harsh measures in the slightest doubt of uncontrolled contagion, regardless the social and economic cost that it entails.

Specifically, the newspaper ‘Beijing Daily’, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Chinese capital, collected some statements from Qi, who pointed out that these measures to stop the pandemic were going to be maintained for at least five years, which caused a stir in the population.

In response, the newspaper has removed the quote and corrected the article as an “editing error”, leaving intact other of its comments on COVID-19, as reported by the US network , which attributes the fact to censors. Chinese.

Shanghai began the closure of the Pudong and Puxi districts on March 28 at the beginning of a quarantine to stop an outbreak that has left more than 60,000 affected since the beginning of the pandemic, most of whom have already been discharged. medical.

The metropolis resumed its normal life on June 1 with the implementation of fifty measures to help affected companies and people and recover the economy and society as soon as possible after the scenes of tension experienced at times when residents came to protest the lack of access to basic supplies during the lockdown.

In the case of mainland China, primary and secondary students have returned to their face-to-face classes on Monday after more than 50 days of distance education due to an increase in positives, according to Xinhua.