In her last report posted to YouTube on May 13, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan 張湛,described how ‘human rights had suffered’ even after the lockdown ended. Two days later, she was detained by police.
2020/05/19 - Zhang Zhan, a 'journalist citizen' who disappeared in Wuhan, arrested. She accused the government of lying about the pandemic and depriving the Chinese people of their fundamental rights. She had been imprisoned as early ...
Residents wearing face masks lined up to get tested for the coronavirus at a residential compound in Wuhan last week. Aly Song/Reuters
Wuhan tests millions to calm fears
In two weeks, the Chinese health authorities managed to administer 6.5 million tests for the coronavirus in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began and where six new infections detected two weeks ago raised fears of a second wave of contagion.
The result: Only 200 cases were found, mostly people who showed no symptoms.
The blanket testing cost hundreds of millions of dollars and mobilized thousands of medical and other workers.
But this did not deter the government, which saw the testing as critical to restoring the public confidence needed to help restart the economy and return to some level of normalcy, our correspondents write.
Supporters of the testing drive said the true value of the campaign was not so much medical as psychological.
Quotable: “If there is no testing, everyone will still be scared,” said Guo Guangchang, head of Fosun, a Chinese conglomerate. “Many companies will have no way to resume production, and the service industry will have no customers.”
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