China censors statement by leader who said Covid zero would be maintained in Beijing until 2027
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Beijing residents walk in front of a restaurant closed by health authorities
| Photo: EFE/EPA/MARK R. CRISTINO
According to CNN, the CCP secretary in the city, Cai Qi said in remarks reproduced by the state-run Beijing Daily on Monday. ) that “in the next five years, Beijing will resolutely implement measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic.” -12 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 share it The moment of the quote was censored on the social network by the 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 closes neighborhoods and even entire cities when Covid-19 outbreaks-10 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 implementation of fences in buildings and neighborhoods where infections were detected and the killing of dogs in the streets on the pretext of preventing them from passing the virus to humans.
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