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It is one of the countries where the anti-Covid policy is the most draconian. And yet, in China, the number of contaminations is at its highest for six months. The point on the spot with the correspondent of France Télévisions Arnauld Miguet.
“Despite the draconian measures, despite the systematic confinements as soon as a new case is discovered”record figures were unveiled on Tuesday November 8: 6,775 cases of Covid-19 were announced in China, “We hadn’t seen that for six months”, reports Arnauld Miguet, correspondent for France Télévisions. In Beijing, for example, in the Shaoyang district, which has more than 3 million inhabitants, “all schools this morning are closed again”. It is also that of the embassies and the business district.
“Ever more numerous, ever more contested restrictions”
In Guangzhou, “Makeshift hospitals are back, to quarantine positive Covid-19 cases. And in Wuhan, where it all started, almost three years ago, the barricades are back”adds the journalist. “Ever more numerous, ever more contested restrictions, with its share of tragedies, such as suicides, or this story of this child who died. He had been poisoned with gas. According to his father, in a message posted on social networks , it was the agents responsible for the containment who hindered his arrival at the hospital and that is why he died. The local authorities have since apologized”says Arnauld Miguet.