Europe Press and Xinhua
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, p. 18
Beijing. The Chinese government shifted the focus of concern over the covid-19 pandemic to Beijing, where central authorities demanded more measures from local authorities to stop an outbreak of cases that remains constant, with dozens of new positives every day.
On a national scale, the daily cases have dropped below a thousand and are already far from the almost 30,000 that were registered in mid-April, after the authorities contained outbreaks such as those in Shanghai, whose inhabitants have spent weeks confined.
In Beijing, 63 additional positives were reported yesterday and experts predict that the outbreak in the capital could still last until June, according to the newspaper. Glo-ball Times.
Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chunlan, responsible for monitoring the evolution of the epidemiological crisis, toured some of the places with cases in Beijing and called for a greater response. Thus, although she pointed out that the pandemic seems controlled, there may still be occasional spikes in infections.
Sun’s trip to Beijing – after he had traveled to Shanghai last month – is especially symbolic, because it shows that the government wants to monitor more closely the response of local officials. Not surprisingly, punishments were already adopted on other occasions for alleged failures to contain the pandemic.
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Jokes have been posted on social media about the lockdowns that supposedly follow Sun’s visits to different cities, according to the news agency. Bloomberg.
His trips usually precede stricter measures to try to comply with the zero cases policy that President Xi Jinping still defends.
Separately, North Korea reported no new deaths among fever patients in the country, the first time since a coronavirus outbreak was detected nearly two weeks ago, adding that it was seeing a downward trend. stable
in the pandemic.
Sweden is recommending a fifth dose of the vaccine for people at higher risk of severe illness, including pregnant women and any adult over 65 years of age.
The global balance due to the pandemic is 6 million 280 thousand 63 deaths and 526 million 534 thousand 751 infected, according to Johns Hopkins University.
