Xi Jinping calls to “protect” lives against COVID-19 in China

the chinese president, Xi Jinpingurged the authorities on Monday to take measures to “effectively protect“the lives of their compatriots in the face of the advance of the covid-19in his first public comments since Beijing eased restrictions this month.

“We should launch a patriotic health campaign in a more refined way“, to strengthen “prevention and control” of the epidemic and “effectively protect people’s life, safety and health”, said the Chinese president, quoted by the state channel CCTV.

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Three years after the first cases of covid-19 appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan (center), the Asian giant is facing an explosive increase in the number of people infected with the virus.

Many hospitals are overcrowded and pharmacies are short of medicines. In addition, several crematoriums told AFP that they are receiving a large number of bodies to be cremated.

China has only officially acknowledged six deaths from covid-19 since the restrictions were lifted.

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But, according to numerous experts, this balance would be much lower than the real number of deaths, in a country where a large part of the elderly are not vaccinated against covid-19.

Source: Elcomercio

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