China kept the world in the dark about the coronavirus, the tendency to cover up the epidemic

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New York Times, Wuhan. Today, the world is battling the coronavirus taking the form of an epidemic due to the desire to suppress China’s information. When the initial cases of the coronavirus were reported in the city of Wuhan in late December, Communist-ruled China hid it from the eyes of the world.

In December, doctors at Wuhan Medical College found seven patients suffering from a mysterious illness.

In late December, doctors at the Medical College Hospital in Wuhan found seven patients suffering from a mysterious illness. Doctor Wen Wenliang, who was treating him, immediately alerted his fellow doctors and asked them to keep those patients in the isolation ward of the Emergency Department.

Is 2002 a disease called SARS coming back

This was mentioned by Doctor Wenliang in an online chat on 30 December. A person involved in a chat with him, calling it highly frightening, wanted to know from the doctor whether the disease called SARS of 2002 is coming back? About eight hundred people died of that disease.

Forcibly told the doctor that this disease is not SARS, but coronavirus

On the same night, doctors from Wuhan’s health department summoned Dr. Lee. He was asked why he shared this information. Three days later the police got Dr. Lee to forcibly state that his warning comes under the purview of ‘illegal behavior’ and that the disease is not SARS, but a coronavirus similar to that.

Coronavirus has now spread to 25 countries, including China, killing 300 people

Today this coronavirus has spread to 25 countries of the world including China. So far more than three hundred people have died and thousands have been infected by it. Authorities were initially very careless about the coronavirus. In order to prevent panic and embarrass political leadership, people kept hiding it.

The first case of coronavirus came only in December, the government came into action from January 20

Local people, doctors, officials, government statements and media reports show that about seven weeks have been wasted between the first case of the virus being exposed and the city of Wuhan being sealed. It is believed that the first case of coronavirus was revealed in early December, but there is no information about it, whereas, the government came into action with the disease from 20 January.

The authorities banned doctors from talking about the virus.

In these seven weeks, authorities banned doctors and others from talking about the virus. Authorities kept people unaware of the dangers of the disease, due to which people could not defend themselves.

China has a tendency to cover the epidemic

On one hand, the coronavirus was spreading rapidly, on the other hand, the officials kept saying that the virus was less likely to spread. Public health experts say the Chinese government missed an opportunity to prevent the disease from turning into an epidemic, by not alerting people aggressively to the disease.

The Chinese government did not take any action to deal with this threat.

Fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations, studying in China, Yanzhong Huang said that Wuhan’s local health department did not take any action to caution people against this threat.