First American Citizen Dies Of Coronavirus In Wuhan As Supply Shortages Persist, Police Forcibly Quarantine Infected
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 02/08/2020
Summary:
Fatalities in China reached a single-day high of 86 on Friday, raising the national death toll to 724
WHO reported 31,481 confirmed global cases on Friday, up by 3,000+ cases from Thursday; SCMP says total cases closer to 35k
First American citizen has died
First Japanese citizen suspected of succumbing to virus
France elevates travel advisory to orange after 5 Britons fall ill in ski resort
Roundup of suspected infected in Wuhan continues
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Update (1200ET): More surprisingly frank reports from the Chinese press have been circulating on Saturday courtesy of Caixin, a Beijing-based financial and business news organization.
Among other things, TV reports claimed shortages of essential medical supplies have persisted into Saturday, stoking public anger over the death of Dr. Li, the first bonafide martyr of the 2019-2020 nCoV outbreak.
Caixin -Shortages Persist, Aerosol Transmission Fuels Jitters https://t.co/GL7XmHjF3d public health experts said commonly used coronavirus tests were returning worrying numbers of false negatives, fueling concerns that the virus may have spread far further than reported.
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) February 8, 2020
The station offered more grim updates on the rounding up of all infected patients in Wuhan.
sat cctv eve news on central group overseeing the epidemic- 中央赴湖北指导组：应收尽收，刻不容缓 – in wuhan – "round up everyone who needs to be rounded up, no delay tolerated" in effort to quarantine anyone infected or suspected to be infected w the virus https://t.co/Ox7RZ6JIYR
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) February 8, 2020
Other reports claim that government forces are also rounding up those who are merely suspected of being exposed.
Disturbing from Communist China.
Chinese government are only suspecting these people have been exposed & therefore are going to quarantine them w/ people who have #coronavirus.
They are fighting because they don’t want to be quarantined w/ the infected. pic.twitter.com/6Lvnr2Cj7o
— Nat Shupe (@NatShupe) February 7, 2020
As one twitter sleuth asks: Would they be going to all this trouble for less than 800 dead across a country of 1.4 billion? So far, reports of these violent roundups have been confined to Wuhan. How long until they start rounding up party members in Shanghai, or Beijing?
Police in #China are rounding people up and taking them by force if they are sick or suspected of being #infected by #Wuhan #coronavirus #2019nCoV.
Would this be happening if the actual numbers of the infected and the dead were as low as what is being told? China is in panic. pic.twitter.com/bGJj3f9PGs
— Coronavirus Pandemic Tracker (@nCoVtracker) February 3, 2020
China’s death toll soars as Wuhan plans roundup of infected. A senior Chinese official has ordered the authorities in the city of Wuhan to immediately roundup all infected #coronavirus patients for new “mass quarantine camps”. (CNN)
pic.twitter.com/ZGhDkSTr53— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) February 6, 2020
Mandatory home and temperature checks were only the beginning. How long until millions are forcibly confined?
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