Source: Wall Street Journal
Author: Sha HUA, Rachel Liang
Some international travelers who arrived in China protested on the spot and opposed they were sent to compulsory concentration isolation, and they won.
China has announced the cancellation of entry isolation measures, but it will not be implemented until January 8.At Nanjing Airport, about 100 passengers argued with the health staff and the police that it was unreasonable to obey an upcoming rule.
The group of people refused to board the generals to take them to a hotel for five days for compulsory isolation.21 -year -old student Jessica Li said that in the debate back and forth, some participants repeatedly shouted the slogan not to beolate. The relevant departments later made concessions to allow these passengers to go home directly.She flew from Seoul to Nanjing on Sunday night.
LI said they raised objections in a peaceful way, and health staff just perfunctory to let them get on the car.
Three hours later, a similar incident occurred in Nanjing, which involved a passenger from Tokyo to Nanjing flights.According to Akira Wang, a 28 -year -old marketing professionals, in the end, these passengers signed a commitment to promise to be responsible for all risks brought about by not hotels, and were later released.
The man named Wang said: This is meaningless. Our nucleic acid test results are negative. Now there are so many people in China. Why waste time?
The National Health and Health Commission of China will not comment.The reporter could not contact the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration.The News Office of the State Council of the State Council has not responded to the reporter's comment request for the time being.
These small demonstrations echoed the waves of anger and protests in the previous waves. These waves prompted the Chinese government to stop some of the world's strictest epidemic prevention measures in early December 2022.
China has adopted a dynamic zero -zero policy in response to the crown disease epidemic, which has basically isolated from the outside world in the past three years.In 2022, as the Virus of Omikon mutated strain caused an epidemic in all parts of the country, it prompted the government to implement long -term and strict control measures, which further deepened this isolation.These seal control measures have led to economic slowdown and exacerbated public dissatisfaction.
The China Health Department announced on December 26 last year that it will cancel the requirements for crown disease isolation in international entryrs, which is another major measure in China.Right now, the crown disease is rapidly spreading across the country.
The National Health and Health Commission said that this change means that starting from January 8, immigrants no longer need to accept forced forced isolation.They only need to perform nucleic acid testing 48 hours before the trip, and the negative person can come to China.
Passengers who have arrived in China are entering a country with a large -scale infection. The true scale and degree of the epidemic are unknown.After the National Health and Health Commission was previously criticized by the newly added infection, it stopped publishing daily crown disease -related data on December 25 last year.
The Chinese are trying to adapt to the rapid changing environment. The Chinese medical system is overwhelming due to a large number of patients (especially the elderly), and pharmacies across the country have a shortage of fever drugs such as acetamine.
According to a statement issued on the website of the China National Drug Administration, last Friday, China Emergency approval of Molnupiravir, Coronary Treatment of Merck and RidgeBack Biotherapeutics LP.In February 2022, China's emergency approved a competitive oral drug, namely Phaxlovid of Pfizer.
Chinese officials have denied the shortage of drugs or medical equipment and ignored the help of vaccines and other medical products proposed by the United States.
Jessica Li, who has been studying in South Korea for the past six months, said that before the plane took off, her same plane passengers organized a chat group on WeChat and agreed to unite to avoid being isolated.WeChat is a powerful application in China.
She said that after hearing a successful protest the day before, they were encouraged to take action.The confrontation caused by this lasted about an hour.
Wang and their group of tourists were not very successful at first, and the staff forced them to board the bus at the airport to send them to isolation.But after arriving at the designated hotel, travelers refused to stay.After 90 minutes of debate, the staff gave concessions. After the passengers signed the agreement to agree to the full responsibility of not being isolated, they were allowed to go home.
Wang said that we and them all know that this is no longer reasonable.
He said that he generally supported China's strict crown disease prevention measures, but after the city's city was closed for several months in Shanghai last spring, he believed that this situation must eventually end.
He said that he couldn't do it anymore, and he couldn't stand it anymore.
