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Millions Of Chinese Mourn "Martyr" Doctor Punished For Coronavirus Warnings +Video

Friday, February 7, 2020 14:21
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By Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge

Summary:

  • Confirmed cases surpass 31k, deaths still at 638
  • Reporter says ‘real’ death toll could be closer to 20k
  • German scientists say nCoV can survive for 9 days on surfaces
  • Chinese quarantine expanded to Guangzhou; 400 million now on lockdown
  • Singapore raises response level to Orange
  • Hong Kong confirms case No. 25

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Update (1215ET): Here’s the latest sign that the public outrage over China;’ handling of the coronavirus outbreak might lead to a genuine ‘crisis of confidence’ in the regime.

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SCMP reports that the death of Dr. Li is threatening to turn into a public confidence crisis for Beijing as it expands quarantine measures to more than 400 million Chinese, 3 provinces and 60+ cities.

Many are treating the doctor as a martyr. Across the country, mourners are paying tribute for his death. On Friday, dozens of mourners placed flowers and black-and-white photos of Li at the entrance to Wuhan Central Hospital where he worked and died.

Some have demanded that the Wuhan government apologize to his family.

Beijing’s “unusual decision” to send a team from the country’s top anti-corruption agency to Wuhan just hours after the death suggests the central government is desperately searching for a local scapegoat upon whom they can blame the doctor’s death. The “issues of public concern relating to Li Wenliang” shows how seriously the government is taking the venting of public anger.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases has climbed above 31k.

Following initial ‘confusion’ about the circumstances surrounding Li’s death, by 6 am on Saturday morning in Beijing, hashtags “Dr Li Wenliang has passed away” had 670 million views on Chinese social media. “Li Wenliang has passed away” had 230 million views, and “I want freedom of speech” had 2.86 million views on Weibo. Though these hashtags were quickly censored.

Li, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, was one of the eight whistleblowers who were “disciplined” by the police in early January for spreading dangerous “rumors” after he posted a message in a closed online WeChat group about a number of “SARS-like” cases at his hospital. He was soon infected from his patients.

As one reporter who has been assiduously sharing videos from the epicenter of the crisis in Wuhan reported, many in Wuhan have taken to shouting Dr. Li’s name to other apartments as millions remain on lockdown.

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Jennifer Zeng also shared a video showing 30,000 dead ducks who died as a result of neglect during the outbreak. We reported yesterday that millions of Chinese have been struggling to care for pets and animals who have been abandoned by the quarantine.

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Hong Kong has also confirmed its 25th case as panic sets in.

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She also reported that a more realistic death toll is closer to 20k.

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And shared video of what’s alleged to be one of the CCP’s internet-monitoring stations.

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As we’ve reported, dozens of airlines have suspended flights to and from China – much to Beijing’s chagrin. But FlightRadar24 showed that while air traffic has fallen off significantly, there are still some flights leaving parts of the country where the virus is very active.

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Meanwhile, as we reported earlier, the White House has asked American researchers to study the origins of the White House, the latest sign that the ‘conspiracy theory’ about the virus being a bioengineered weapon unwittingly unleashed on an unsuspecting population may have bred a handful of skeptics in high places.

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Update (1100ET): This is bad news for airlines, casinos and virtually every business (restaurants, bars any other business) in the nightlife or entertainment fields. A team of German scientists have determined that the coronavirus can survive for up to 9 days on a surface.

That’s bad news, because it means the virus, which was recently discovered to have some genetic markers in common with HIV, is much more hardy than the common flu.

The researchers also commented on research from Chinese scientists who said the virus may have spread from bats to humans via the illegal trafficking of pangolins, one of the most heavily poached animals in the world (the species is beloved for its scales).

 

Though other scientists have questioned these connections, according to Reuters, the researchers, from Greifswald and Bochum, have published findings from their coronavirus research earlier than planned and said the pangolin poaching theory was plausible.

They also added that certain disinfectants help particularly well to make the viruses on surfaces harmless.

Now that another case has been confirmed, the total number of infected people in Germany rose to 13, almost all of those infected had never been to China, indicating that most were infected via human to human transmission.

As of Friday morning there were more than 31,000 registered diseases. The death toll rose to 636, Der Tagesspiegel reported. By comparison, the flu virus can barely survive for 24 hours, HIV can survive for six days.

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Guangzhou, the capital of China’s southwestern Guangdong Province and the country’s fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only limited permission to venture into the outside world to buy essential supplies.

The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now facing China’s most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more than 2 dozen countries.

That’s more than 400 million people forcibly locked inside their homes for 638 deaths? Just think about that: If there was ever a reason to believe that Beijing is lying about the numbers (and not just because Tencent accidentally leaked the real data), this is it.

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Meanwhile, in the US, the Trump Administration has directed researchers to investigate the ‘true origins’ of the virus, as ‘conspiracy theories’ and misinformation spreads online. We can’t help but wonder: What if the scientists discover something that the regime in Beijing doesn’t want them to see?

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Elsewhere, Singapore raised its national disease response level to Orange, the second-highest level and the same level from the SARS epidemic, according to the city-state’s health ministry. It also confirmed three new coronavirus cases. While investigations are ongoing, none of the three appear to have a history of recent travel to China, suggesting they picked up the virus in Singapore.

‘Orange’ means the outbreak “is severe and spreads easily from person to person” but “has not spread widely in Singapore and is being contained,” according to the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition color-coded framework. Singapore has never invoked its highest level, red, per BBG.

Foreigners are complaining that the new hospitals in Wuhan are merely ‘quarantine centers’ without any medical resources.

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Yesterday, Beijing argued that the virus outbreak had ‘peaked’ as they cited a drop in the rate of new infections. However, others have suggested that the rate of new confirmed cases has more to do with Beijing’s limited resources.

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The WHO said during a press conference on Thursday that it’s too early to claim that the outbreak has peaked, even as the outlook for the global economy falls off a cliff.

See more videos here: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-400-million-people-lockdown-guangzhou-joins-quarantine

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