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3-Year-Old in China Dies After Covid Restrictions Delayed Care


In September, a bus crashed while taking dozens of people to the quarantine facility at midnight, kill 27; Many social media users think that it is to be blamed in haste to send people to quarantine. Pregnant women miscarriedand a nurse in Shanghai died of an asthma attackafter being denied care according to Covid protocols.

But the central government has doubled on zero Covid, with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, successful strategic statement as he announced the third semester last month. Internet censors are quick to dismiss public discussion of deaths related to restrictions, or try to limit it to an official story.

Such censorship appears to have been applied in the case of Mr. Tuo’s son.

After Mr. Tuo published a blog post on Wednesday demanded an official explanation of the boy’s death, it was read more than 25 million times in seven hours. He wrote that he first noticed that his wife seemed unwell and, after examining her, found that his son had passed out. (Police later said that “improper use” of the liquefied gas stove caused the carbon monoxide leak.)

When Mr. Tuo’s emergency calls failed, he went out and asked officials at a checkpoint – an area that has been locked down because of the virus – for help. They refused, he wrote.

Finally, taking his son, he tore down some of the fences that had been erected around his neighborhood, and with the help of another was able to flag down a cab. By the time they got to the hospital, it was too late.

“If my son had been taken to the hospital sooner, he could still have been saved,” Mr. Tuo wrote. He added that someone claiming to be from an NGO offered him 100,000 yuan, or about $14,000, if he agreed not to hold local officials accountable. duty.

As public pressure mounts, Lanzhou officials told a state newspaper which they will investigate. But Mr. Tuo’s blog post has since been deleted.

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