The Chinese Communist Party has punished tens of its officials in the wake of worsening COVID-19 outbreaks across the country. It also revoked the business licenses of three clinics and their doctors on May 16 and 17.
On May 17, 17 regions in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province and eastern China’s Anhui Province were designated as “medium-risk” for contracting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19.
Concerned about the increase in official case reports, records showed a 13.95 million jump in doses of vaccine administered on May 16—the largest number for a single day since March 24 when the regime started reporting the number of daily vaccinations.
According to reports, the latest outbreaks have been linked to cases that first showed symptoms in early May, when Chinese had five days off during the Labor Day holiday period. Around 230 million passenger trips were made.
In the hopes of keeping their jobs, Anhui officials deferred responsibility for their local outbreaks by claiming that their first patient was infected in Liaoning province, while the Liaoning provincial government claimed their outbreak was caused by two visitors from Anhui.
On May 17, Chinese netizens shared videos on social media showing that the regime was again fully restricting the movement of people in whole residential buildings by welding shut iron gates, affixing paper seals, or locking doors with iron padlocks from the outside.
“Once one resident is infected (with CCP virus), the whole residential compound will be sealed,” a business owner at Yujingwan III residential compound in Yu’an district, Liu’an city, Anhui, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times in a phone interview on May 17.