
© AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinPeople wearing face masks to help protect against COVID-19 walk through a subway station during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.
China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic has escalated with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city
and the punishment of its local leaders.
Since the initial outbreak was tamed
last year, China's people had lived virtually free of the virus, with strict border controls and local distancing and quarantine measures stamping out scattered flare-ups.
Now the country is on high alert as an outbreak connected to the international airport in the eastern city of Nanjing touched at least 17 provinces.
China reported 71 new cases of Covid-19 from local transmission on Wednesday, more than half of them in coastal Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital.
Comment: There is clearly something wrong with the minds of all involved in this ridiculously petty vengeance scheme and now an innocent woman is dead. They deserve every year of their sentences.