The Communist Party of China (CPCh) censored a statement by a top official of the legend and user posts on the social network Weibo after he said the country’s capital Beijing would maintain the Covid zero policy adopted by the Chinese regime for the next few years. five years.
According to CNN, the CCP’s secretary in the city, Cai Qi, said in statements reproduced by the state-run Beijing Daily on Monday (27) that “in the next five years, Beijing will resolutely implement measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic.” 19 and will defend the Covid zero policy to prevent the entry of imported cases and the return of domestic cases.”
The statement generated a lot of criticism on Weibo, and then the sharing of the quote was censored on the social network by Chinese authorities. The hashtag #for the next five years has been removed from the platform. On its website, the Beijing Daily also removed from the text the passage that spoke of the next five years and claimed “editing error”.
In its zero Covid policy, China shuts down neighborhoods and even entire cities when outbreaks of Covid-19 are detected.
The case that had the greatest international repercussion was in Shanghai, where for more than two months a strict lockdown was imposed with measures that generated much criticism, such as the installation of fences in buildings and neighborhoods where infections were detected and the killing of dogs in the streets under the pretext of prevent them from passing the virus to humans.
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