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Epoch Times
3 days ago
- Health
- Epoch Times
Schools in China Reportedly Isolate Students as COVID Cases Surge
Doctors and residents across China continue to report more infections and deaths as the latest wave of COVID-19 continues, portraying a far more severe situation than the Chinese regime is letting on. Schools in various provinces are reportedly suspending classes and placing students in quarantine, leading to growing concerns among the public of a return of lockdowns, according to information provided to the Chinese language version of The Epoch Times and on social media. A 'home quarantine notice,' issued by a primary school in Guangzhou and circulated by Chinese netizens on China's TikTok equivalent, Douyin, before being The notice said that a third-grade student was ordered to undergo quarantine for seven days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. After the quarantine period, health certificates from a clinic and community health service agency were required for the student to return to school. Schools in Shaanxi and Jiangsu also suspended classes after some students exhibited fevers, which were suspected to be COVID-19 infections. The Chinese communist regime's official data show that the COVID-19 infection rate doubled in April, with 168,507 cases, including 340 severe cases and nine deaths. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said that infection rates in China's southern provinces were higher than that in the north. Related Stories 5/30/2025 5/31/2025 Chinese state media Xinhua reported on May 28 that, according to health officials, the upward trend of COVID-19 infections has slowed down, and in most provinces the epidemic has reached a peak or is on a downward trend. However, residents across the country told The Epoch Times the situation is far worse and that official data continue to not match their lived experience. Because of the CCP's history of covering up information and publishing unreliable data, including the underreporting of COVID-19 infections and related deaths since early 2020, accounts from local medical doctors and residents can offer valuable information for understanding the situation on the ground in the totalitarian country. Kang Hong, a doctor at a clinic in Guangzhou city in China's south who used a pseudonym for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on May 29 that most of those infected with COVID-19 in this wave have been adults, although it has also affected children. 'Their symptoms are far more severe than the common cold,' he said, including the white-lung symptom often seen in COVID-19 patients. Kang said that most patients came to the clinic for symptoms of colds and fevers. He added that they are not being tested for COVID-19 'because hospitals in China had not conducted large-scale nucleic acid testing for a long time because it was worried about causing social panic.' Many patients are also unwilling to take a COVID-19 test, Kang said, 'because they know they are infected with the COVID-19 (based on their symptoms) and were unwilling to spend more than 100 yuan ($13.90) for testing.' Kang revealed that a doctor in a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, where his daughter works, died from COVID-19 in recent days. 'It's a senior doctor who only got tested when his symptoms became serious, and the result was COVID-19,' Kang said. Kang added that although COVID-19 infections have increased, the local health bureau told the doctors that they do not need to report confirmed cases. Mr. Li, a resident of Guangzhou city who only gave his last name out of safety concerns, told The Epoch Times that there are many people around him who have had cold-like symptoms recently, including his whole family. Li said they were diagnosed with COVID-19 several times before, and believe their symptoms are another round of COVID-19. Mr. Guo, a resident in the adjacent Shenzhen city, told The Epoch Times that during the May Day holiday (May 1 to May 4), many people traveled and started to show cold symptoms that are likely COVID-19 afterwards. Meanwhile, residents in north China also reported a spike in COVID-19 infections. Liu Kun, the owner of a private clinic in Hohhot city in Inner Mongolia who gave the pseudonym for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on May 30 that COVID-19 infections are ongoing, 'with many experiencing symptoms of coughing, sputum, vomiting and diarrhea.' He said there are many patients whose 'symptoms last for a long time—some even for months.' He predicted that based on the characteristics of this infectious disease, 'there may be an explosive growth in infections in June and July.' People wearing masks wait at an outpatient area of the respiratory department of a hospital in Beijing, China, on Jan. 8, 2025. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images Mr. Xu, a resident in Benxi city of Liaoning Province who only gave his surname out of safety concerns, told The Epoch Times that some of his friends and relatives have recently caught colds. 'We have already realized that it may be COVID-19 caused by a mutated virus. The symptoms have been dragging on and not getting better. It cannot be cured by medicine at all.' He added that there have been sudden deaths, especially concentrated around people in their 40s and 50s. The infections have also been rapidly spreading in Shanxi Province, Mr. Luo, a resident of Changzhi city who only gave his surname, told The Epoch Times. 'My family members—including my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter—have all been infected,' he said. Fear of Zero-COVID Restrictions The school suspensions and quarantines have heightened public concern that the regime's draconian zero-COVID restrictions employed from 2020 to the end of 2022—during which communities were locked down, mass testing was mandatory, travel was restricted, and residents were forcefully sent to quarantine centers—could make a comeback. Dr. Jonathan Liu, director of Liu's Wisdom Healing Centre and a professor at Canada Public College, told The Epoch Times on May 30 that although mainland China is experiencing another wave of COVID-19 infections, the official data hasn't indicated a serious spread that requires the lockdown of cities. 'Following the continuing strategy of concealment, the Chinese regime does not want to shut down the cities or implement the zero-COVID policy at the moment because that will seriously affect its economic development. Now, stimulating economic development is the regime's top priority,' Liu said. Sean Lin, assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College and former U.S. army microbiologist, shares a similar assessment. 'The authorities won't immediately adopt the lockdown measure because they also know that if they implement the strict zero-COVID policy, it will cause a huge backlash from the public,' Lin told The Epoch Times on May 30. 'So the government is now building mobile cabin hospitals or temporary isolation facilities in various regions to quietly take people away. There may not be major changes in policy announced to the public,' he said. The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times reported earlier this year that, according to insiders in some parts of China, local governments were building large scale mobile cabin hospitals to quarantine patients with respiratory infections, including COVID-19, such as in Urumqi in Xinjiang region and in several provinces. Employees work at a makeshift hospital that will be used for COVID-19 coronavirus patients in Guangzhou, in China's eastern Guangdong province on April 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images Lin said that some places may have adopted measures to let people stay at home for quarantine 'but it will not turn into a large-scale policy unless the regime is unstable and the authorities have to take such measures. It has not reached that point yet.' The China CDC has yet to release its COVID-19 data for May but did update its weekly influenza report, in which the number of infections increased significantly this week. According to the weekly influenza report for epidemiological week 21 (May 19 to 25), released May 29, a total of eight influenza-like outbreaks have been reported nationwide. In comparison, only one influenza-like outbreak was reported nationwide in week 20 and no influenza-like outbreaks were reported in week 19. Lin said that the authorities continue to cover-up real COVID data in China. 'The people do not know the real situation and the severity of the wave of outbreak, especially the severity rate and mortality rate. The authorities don't tell the people.' He said that China's situation is more complicated and severe, as 'it involves multiple respiratory pathogens co-circulating and co-infections, with three or four respiratory pathogens infecting at the same time, not just this NB.1.8.1 strain. But the officials have not revealed the real situation, so I think it is difficult for the international community to understand.' NB.1.8.1 Chinese health authorities announced on May 23 that Omicron variant NB.1.8.1 is currently the primary variant spreading across China, as detection of the variant increased in the international community. NB.1.8.1 is a sixth-generation sub-branch of the XDV variant. 'The current data does not show that the NB1.8.1 variant has a significant breakthrough in pathogenicity, but it has an almost 1.8-fold improvement in immune escape capability. If it replaces the previous dominant variant that caused COVID-19, it's because its transmission ability is enhanced,' Lin told The Epoch Times. He pointed out that new COVID variants have frequently emerged in the past three years. 'Often new strains quickly replace old ones to be the dominant one. This has become routine.' A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles on Dec. 22, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) has As the wave of infections in China continues, However, Lin said there is no sign of a ban of travelers or flights from China by other countries 'because the WHO does not have accurate data from China.' 'According to the current monitoring of countries around the world, there has not been a rapid, large-scale increase in infections like in the one in 2020.' Lin said that because the Chinese regime does not reveal true data, 'it's not possible to track virus spreading routes.' 'This also brings about a greater danger,' he said. 'China often covers up many things until they can no longer be covered up. When they come out, the situation is already quite serious and may be out of control. This is actually the biggest concern.' Luo Ya, Fang Xiao, and Xiong Bin contributed to this report.
Epoch Times
3 days ago
- Health
- Epoch Times
Schools Across China Reportedly Isolate Students Over COVID Fears
Doctors and residents across China continue to report more infections and deaths as the latest wave of COVID-19 continues, portraying a far more severe situation than the Chinese regime is letting on. Schools in various provinces are reportedly suspending classes and placing students in quarantine, leading to growing concerns among the public of a return of lockdowns, according to information provided to the Chinese language version of The Epoch Times and on social media. A 'home quarantine notice,' issued by a primary school in Guangzhou and circulated by Chinese netizens on China's TikTok equivalent, Douyin, before being The notice said that a third-grade student was ordered to undergo quarantine for seven days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. After the quarantine period, health certificates from a clinic and community health service agency were required for the student to return to school. Schools in Shaanxi and Jiangsu also suspended classes after some students exhibited fevers, which were suspected to be COVID-19 infections. The Chinese communist regime's official data show that the COVID-19 infection rate doubled in April, with 168,507 cases, including 340 severe cases and nine deaths. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said that infection rates in China's southern provinces were higher than that in the north. Related Stories 5/30/2025 5/31/2025 Chinese state media Xinhua reported on May 28 that, according to health officials, the upward trend of COVID-19 infections has slowed down, and in most provinces the epidemic has reached a peak or is on a downward trend. However, residents across the country told The Epoch Times the situation is far worse and that official data continue to not match their lived experience. Because of the CCP's history of covering up information and publishing unreliable data, including the underreporting of COVID-19 infections and related deaths since early 2020, accounts from local medical doctors and residents can offer valuable information for understanding the situation on the ground in the totalitarian country. Kang Hong, a doctor at a clinic in Guangzhou city in China's south who used a pseudonym for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on May 29 that most of those infected with COVID-19 in this wave have been adults, although it has also affected children. 'Their symptoms are far more severe than the common cold,' he said, including the white-lung symptom often seen in COVID-19 patients. Kang said that most patients came to the clinic for symptoms of colds and fevers. He added that they are not being tested for COVID-19 'because hospitals in China had not conducted large-scale nucleic acid testing for a long time because it was worried about causing social panic.' Many patients are also unwilling to take a COVID-19 test, Kang said, 'because they know they are infected with the COVID-19 (based on their symptoms) and were unwilling to spend more than 100 yuan ($13.90) for testing.' Kang revealed that a doctor in a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, where his daughter works, died from COVID-19 in recent days. 'It's a senior doctor who only got tested when his symptoms became serious, and the result was COVID-19,' Kang said. Kang added that although COVID-19 infections have increased, the local health bureau told the doctors that they do not need to report confirmed cases. Mr. Li, a resident of Guangzhou city who only gave his last name out of safety concerns, told The Epoch Times that there are many people around him who have had cold-like symptoms recently, including his whole family. Li said they were diagnosed with COVID-19 several times before, and believe their symptoms are another round of COVID-19. Mr. Guo, a resident in the adjacent Shenzhen city, told The Epoch Times that during the May Day holiday (May 1 to May 4), many people traveled and started to show cold symptoms that are likely COVID-19 afterwards. Meanwhile, residents in north China also reported a spike in COVID-19 infections. Liu Kun, the owner of a private clinic in Hohhot city in Inner Mongolia who gave the pseudonym for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on May 30 that COVID-19 infections are ongoing, 'with many experiencing symptoms of coughing, sputum, vomiting and diarrhea.' He said there are many patients whose 'symptoms last for a long time—some even for months.' He predicted that based on the characteristics of this infectious disease, 'there may be an explosive growth in infections in June and July.' People wearing masks wait at an outpatient area of the respiratory department of a hospital in Beijing, China, on Jan. 8, 2025. JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images Mr. Xu, a resident in Benxi city of Liaoning Province who only gave his surname out of safety concerns, told The Epoch Times that some of his friends and relatives have recently caught colds. 'We have already realized that it may be COVID-19 caused by a mutated virus. The symptoms have been dragging on and not getting better. It cannot be cured by medicine at all.' He added that there have been sudden deaths, especially concentrated around people in their 40s and 50s. The infections have also been rapidly spreading in Shanxi Province, Mr. Luo, a resident of Changzhi city who only gave his surname, told The Epoch Times. 'My family members—including my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter—have all been infected,' he said. Fear of Zero-COVID Restrictions The school suspensions and quarantines have heightened public concern that the regime's draconian zero-COVID restrictions employed from 2020 to the end of 2022—during which communities were locked down, mass testing was mandatory, travel was restricted, and residents were forcefully sent to quarantine centers—could make a comeback. Dr. Jonathan Liu, director of Liu's Wisdom Healing Centre and a professor at Canada Public College, told The Epoch Times on May 30 that although mainland China is experiencing another wave of COVID-19 infections, the official data hasn't indicated a serious spread that requires the lockdown of cities. 'Following the continuing strategy of concealment, the Chinese regime does not want to shut down the cities or implement the zero-COVID policy at the moment because that will seriously affect its economic development. Now, stimulating economic development is the regime's top priority,' Liu said. Sean Lin, assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College and former U.S. army microbiologist, shares a similar assessment. 'The authorities won't immediately adopt the lockdown measure because they also know that if they implement the strict zero-COVID policy, it will cause a huge backlash from the public,' Lin told The Epoch Times on May 30. 'So the government is now building mobile cabin hospitals or temporary isolation facilities in various regions to quietly take people away. There may not be major changes in policy announced to the public,' he said. The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times reported earlier this year that, according to insiders in some parts of China, local governments were building large scale mobile cabin hospitals to quarantine patients with respiratory infections, including COVID-19, such as in Urumqi in Xinjiang region and in several provinces. Employees work at a makeshift hospital that will be used for Covid-19 coronavirus patients in Guangzhou, in China's eastern Guangdong province on April 11, 2022. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT Lin said that some places may have adopted measures to let people stay at home for quarantine 'but it will not turn into a large-scale policy unless the regime is unstable and the authorities have to take such measures. It has not reached that point yet.' The China CDC has yet to release its COVID-19 data for May but did update its weekly influenza report, in which the number of infections increased significantly this week. According to the weekly influenza report for epidemiological week 21 (May 19 to 25), released May 29, a total of eight influenza-like outbreaks have been reported nationwide. In comparison, only one influenza-like outbreak was reported nationwide in week 20 and no influenza-like outbreaks were reported in week 19. Lin said that the authorities continue to cover-up real COVID data in China. 'The people do not know the real situation and the severity of the wave of outbreak, especially the severity rate and mortality rate. The authorities don't tell the people.' He said that China's situation is more complicated and severe, as 'it involves multiple respiratory pathogens co-circulating and co-infections, with three or four respiratory pathogens infecting at the same time, not just this NB.1.8.1 strain. But the officials have not revealed the real situation, so I think it is difficult for the international community to understand.' NB.1.8.1 Chinese health authorities announced on May 23 that Omicron variant NB.1.8.1 is currently the primary variant spreading across China, as detection of the variant increased in the international community. NB.1.8.1 is a sixth-generation sub-branch of the XDV variant. 'The current data does not show that the NB1.8.1 variant has a significant breakthrough in pathogenicity, but it has an almost 1.8-fold improvement in immune escape capability. If it replaces the previous dominant variant that caused COVID-19, it's because its transmission ability is enhanced,' Lin told The Epoch Times. He pointed out that new COVID variants have frequently emerged in the past three years. 'Often new strains quickly replace old ones to be the dominant one. This has become routine.' A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 22, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) has As the wave of infections in China continues, However, Lin said there is no sign of a ban of travelers or flights from China by other countries 'because the WHO does not have accurate data from China.' 'According to the current monitoring of countries around the world, there has not been a rapid, large-scale increase in infections like in the one in 2020.' Lin said that because the Chinese regime does not reveal true data, 'it's not possible to track virus spreading routes.' 'This also brings about a greater danger,' he said. 'China often covers up many things until they can no longer be covered up. When they come out, the situation is already quite serious and may be out of control. This is actually the biggest concern.' Luo Ya, Fang Xiao, and Xiong Bin contributed to this report.
Epoch Times
20-05-2025
- Health
- Epoch Times
China Residents Report New Wave of COVID-19 as Infection Rates Double
China's official COVID-19 infection rates doubled in April, according to the latest report from the communist regime's health authorities. Meanwhile, since early May, Chinese citizens across the country have been reporting a new wave of respiratory infections, causing hospitals to become overcrowded again. Experts who spoke with the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times suspect the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to cover up and downplay the true scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, noting that Hong Kong and Taiwan have reported an increase in infections in recent weeks. The May 8 report published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) acknowledged that the COVID-19 positive rate in China—excluding Hong Kong and Macau—had jumped from 7.5 percent in the first week of April to 16.2 percent from April 28 to May 4. The China CDC's report said that the main pathogens detected in respiratory samples of patients with influenza-like symptoms in outpatient and emergency departments of sentinel hospitals were SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, rhinovirus, and human parainfluenza virus. Beijing's Chaoyang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice on May 12, attributing the rising COVID-19 infections in the region to the NB.1 strain, a descendant of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron recombinant lineage XDV, which is closely related to the JN.1 subvariant, itself a descendant of BA.2.86. XDV-related recombinant variant XBB caused a massive outbreak of COVID-19 in China from late 2022 to 2023, according to the health agency. Related Stories 3/13/2025 3/10/2025 As of May 19, the COVID-19 infection report on the China CDC 'China's CDC has not reported the rate of severe cases, hospitalization rate, or mortality rate. Therefore, the outside world cannot know the actual situation,' Sean Lin, assistant professor at the Biomedical Science Department of Feitian College and former U.S. Army microbiologist, told The Epoch Times on May 17. 'The number of infections in mainland China has certainly increased recently, but Beijing doesn't even report the actual number of infections, only the positive rate, which is misleading the public,' Lin said. 'There are three to four types of multiple overlapping infections of respiratory viruses in patients,' Lin said. 'This is more than just COVID-19 infections.' He suspects that the Chinese regime is using COVID-19 infections in the latest report to cover up 'a more serious situation of this more invasive multi-infection.' 'The Chinese regime hasn't told the public about the severity of the situation,' Lin said. Dr. Jonathan Liu, director of Liu's Wisdom Healing Centre, has a similar assessment. 'This wave of respiratory infection in mainland China is mainly caused by COVID-19, but it's combined with other viruses,' he told The Epoch Times on May 17. Many Due to the CCP's history of covering up information and publishing unreliable data, including the underreporting of COVID-19 infections and related deaths since early 2020, accounts from residents can offer valuable information for understanding the situation on the ground in this totalitarian country. Chinese residents told The Epoch Times that many people around them have been infected with COVID-19 or experienced COVID-like symptoms since the holiday. People wait at an outpatient area of the respiratory department of a hospital in Beijing on Jan. 8, 2025. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images 'I was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the hospital, and they had to report it. I suspected I was infected when I went to the emergency room,' said Xu Ling, a resident in Chaoyang District in Beijing who used a pseudonym due to fear of retaliation from the authorities. 'I am almost fully recovered, but it has taken a long time. I took cefuroxime,' Xu said, referring to an antibiotic that he said is used as 'special medicine for COVID-19' in China, a claim that the publication couldn't independently verify. A young parent from Zibo city in China's eastern Shandong Province, who requested anonymity for safety reasons, said he contracted the virus during the May Day holiday while visiting another city. 'Our whole family tested positive for COVID-19,' he said, although his symptoms were milder than the first time he got infected. 'I tried to tough it out for a few days, but I couldn't,' he said. 'I'm still coughing, so I think it's mild pneumonia.' Xiao Qiang, who used a pseudonym for safety concerns, said that 'a lot of people have caught colds recently.' Most of my relatives and friends have had fevers,' said the resident from Baoji city in China's northwest Shaanxi Province. 'It seems that the symptoms are the same as those of previous waves of COVID-19,' he said. 'If you see a doctor, the doctor will only say you have a cold.' Liu said the increase in COVID-19 infections since the May Day holiday is related to many people traveling. 'Many mainland Chinese people traveled to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong residents visited mainland China, so the number of infections has increased,' he said. Infections Rise in Hong Kong and Taiwan Hong Kong health authorities, independent from mainland China's, The COVID-19 positive rate of respiratory samples and the viral content in sewage in Hong Kong have surpassed the highest levels recorded a year ago. Contaminated wastewater can be a significant source of viruses. Liu said that the data in Hong Kong is relatively more realistic than the data from the mainland. 'The numbers released by China's CDC are actually too low. For example, they reported only seven deaths in March, which is unlikely, according to the normal epidemic rate,' he said. He compared these deaths with those 'Canada reported 1,915 COVID-19 deaths in 8.5 months, so the average number of deaths per month is more than 225,' he said, pointing out that the nation has 'a large land area and very low population density, and relatively good sanitary conditions.' 'How could there be only seven deaths in a month in mainland China? It's hard to believe it,' he said. COVID-19 infections in Taiwan have also significantly increased around the same time, according to reports by the island's health authorities. Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control on May 16 'COVID-19 infections in Taiwan may peak in June,' said Dr. Huang Chian-Feng from the Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at National Taiwan University. 'Analysis of the virus strains has shown that they mainly came from Hong Kong and mainland China,' he told The Epoch Times on May 17. Huang said that symptoms are 'easy to ignore' because some symptoms are atypical and non-respiratory, 'including those related to the gastrointestinal tract, such as stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting.' Luo Ya, Ning Haizhong, and Hong Ning contributed to this report.
Epoch Times
27-04-2025
- Health
- Epoch Times
China's CDC Releases March Data on Multiple Viruses Spreading in the Country, Sparking Skepticism
China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) has released its official data for March on COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory viruses spreading in China, which has sparked some skeptical reactions from experts. Mainland Chinese citizens suspect that the authorities are continuing to cover up the truth about respiratory disease epidemics in China, as official data continue to not match their lived experience. In its report on the national COVID-19 epidemic situation for March, released on April 21, the China CDC The latest China CDC weekly update on 'National sentinel surveillance of acute respiratory infectious diseases' was for the week of March 24 to March 30, and was issued on April 3. The CDC said in the weekly report that it collected respiratory samples from outpatient influenza-like cases and hospitalized severe acute respiratory infection cases in sentinel hospitals across the country, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. The test results showed that the main pathogens detected in outpatient respiratory samples were rhinovirus, COVID-19, and human metapneumovirus; the main pathogens detected positively in respiratory samples of hospitalized severe acute respiratory infection cases were respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and human metapneumovirus. 'This is a very vague and simple statistical report,' Sean Lin, assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College and former U.S. army microbiologist, told The Epoch Times on April 25, as the report 'did not provide the specific number of cases or samples tested.' Related Stories 2/26/2025 2/24/2025 Lin noted that the reporting did not include human infections of avian influenza (bird flu). In early March, the Chinese regime admitted 'sporadic' The Epoch Times also reported that the China CDC reported 127 cases of infection with the mutated strain of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in March, which is more contagious, in an internal document that was Lin said that he believes that the omission of human infections of avian influenza from the latest report is because the regime is restricting the release of information about bird flu, especially H5N1, as it may already be spreading among humans and be one of the main causes of ongoing serious respiratory infections in China. The China CDC said that 'no influenza-like illness outbreaks were reported nationwide' in its latest China Influenza Surveillance Weekly Report issued on April 17, covering the period from April 7 to April 13. The official report said the main pathogen causing respiratory infections across China is the influenza A viral strain subtype A(H1N1)pdm09. 'Since October 1, 2024, drug resistance monitoring has shown that 83 A(H1N1)pdm09 subtype influenza strains have reduced or highly reduced sensitivity to neuraminidase inhibitors,' the report stated. Lin said this is worth noting, even though the CCP is being deliberately vague about it. 'What is the percentage of this 'highly reduced sensitivity'? Can it be interpreted as a 'highly drug-resistant' virus strain? That is to say, Tamiflu (a neuraminidase inhibitor) commonly used on the market to treat influenza viral infections may be completely ineffective against such virus strains. This is very important information but the weekly influenza report glossed over it,' he said. Official Data Different From Experience Because of the CCP's record of publishing unreliable data, including its underreporting of COVID-19 infections and related deaths since early 2020, anecdotal accounts by residents provide helpful supplementary information for understanding the situation on the ground in the totalitarian country. A Shanghai-based online writer, who didn't give his name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times in recent days, 'This time, the outbreak in Shanghai gives me a different feeling than the [2020–2022] COVID-19 outbreak. The people infected now are mainly children, and there are also elderly people, but not many. There have also been sudden deaths of young people in their 30s and 40s in the north, but this is rare in Shanghai.' The Shanghai resident also said, 'I went to Kunming [in southwestern China] last year and traveled to Tun Village. I had diarrhea at the time, and the COVID-19 nucleic acid test result showed that I was infected with COVID-19. However, the doctor said that the regulations did not allow them to write COVID-19 as the diagnosis, so they wrote gastroenteritis instead.' The symptoms of common influenza B, influenza A, COVID-19, or norovirus, are very similar, so there are more cases in ongoing viral infections in China, Dr. Jonathan Liu, a professor at Canada Public College and director of Liu's Wisdom Healing Centre, told The Epoch Times on April 26. He said that the reason why the Chinese regime is downplaying the current epidemic is due to certain considerations, 'which is to show that COVID-19 is under control in China, so as not to affect foreign investment and avoid causing panic among the people. It does this to maintain the regime's stability.' Meanwhile, Chinese residents across the country continue to report an increasing number of sudden deaths and overcrowded hospitals. A family member (2nd L) holds an IV drip for a child (L) receiving care at the pediatric department of a hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province, on Jan. 6, 2025. AFP/China Mr. An, a resident in the megacity of Shenzhen in southern China who didn't give his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times in recent days, 'There are many sudden deaths now of people of all ages but more are young people. I have seen quite a few young people in their twenties or thirties who were not sick or had no symptoms suddenly collapse. I saw people collapse while walking on the street.' Mr. Zhang, a resident of Nanyang city in Henan Province in northern China who didn't give his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times in recent days, 'Our funeral homes are quite busy, and the hospitals are very busy.' He continued, 'I went to the hospital to visit a relative of mine who was hospitalized a few days ago. When I arrived at the hospital, the corridors were full of beds, including areas by the elevator doors. There was really no place to put more beds, especially in the cardiovascular and respiratory wards.' Mr. Yuan, a resident of Fuyang city in Anhui Province in East China who didn't give his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times in recent days, 'Many people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s died suddenly. Funeral homes and hospitals are full. Some diseased were buried after cremation, and some were just buried secretly. All the burial spaces in cemeteries have been sold out.' A large amount of video footage shot by Chinese residents has emerged on social media in recent months showing many Luo Ya and Li Jing contributed to this report.
