{"id":1016099,"date":"2021-11-15T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016099"},"modified":"2021-11-15T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:14:16","slug":"china-applauds-its-zero-case-policy-amid-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-applauds-its-zero-case-policy-amid-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"China Applauds Its &#039;Zero-Case Policy&#039; amid Nationwide Coronavirus Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-applauds-its-zero-case-policy-amid-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s latest coronavirus epidemic has forced the country to transition from a \u201czero infection\u201d strategy to a \u201czero case policy,\u201d which encourages state officials to \u201cprevent viral transmission in communities and to find out and treat patients as soon as possible,\u201d China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1238888.shtml\">said<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The head of NHC\u2019s coronavirus response expert panel, Liang Wannian, told the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> on November 14 China\u2019s new \u201czero case policy\u201d differs from a \u201czero infection\u201d strategy because it is \u201cdynamic.\u201d China\u2019s NHC considers the approach more flexible in the current \u201cera of epidemic normalization,\u201d according to Liang.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The NHC leader said this new era of coronavirus \u201cnormalization\u201d includes four conditions: \u201cno local transmitted infections related to imported cases, emergence of sporadic local cases, emergence of partial cluster infection cases in a single location and emergence of sporadic or cluster cases in multiple regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>China is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/11\/coronavirus-china-marathon-olympics\/\">battling<\/a> its most widespread publicly known outbreak of coronavirus since the initial outbreak that started the pandemic in Wuhan, China. The epidemic has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-faces-biggest-delta-outbreak-infections-grow-northeastern-city-2021-11-15\/\">affected<\/a> \u201c21 provinces, regions, and municipalities\u201d since it began on October 17 and caused at least 1,308 infections nationwide as of November 14, according to Reuters. China\u2019s northeastern port city, Dalian, has struggled under the nation\u2019s worst coronavirus caseload in recent days. Coronavirus infections in the coastal tourist hub \u201chave grown faster than elsewhere in the country,\u201d Reuters observed on November 15.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18734370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230268579-e1636823485605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18734370 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230268579-e1636823485605.jpg\" alt=\"A health worker (C) in a protective suit takes a swab from a child to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus as the city carries out a mass testing program after new confirmed cases were found in Dalian, in northeastern China&#039;s Liaoning province on December 23, 2020. (Photo by STR \/ AFP) \/ China OUT (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health worker (C) in a protective suit takes a swab from a child to test for the coronavirus as the city carries out a mass testing program after new confirmed cases were found in Dalian, in northeastern China\u2019s Liaoning province on December 23, 2020. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSince Dalian\u2019s first local symptomatic patients from the latest outbreak was reported on Nov. 4, the port city of 7.5 million people has detected an average of about 24 new local cases a day, more than any other Chinese cities, according to Reuters calculations,\u201d the international news agency reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDalian remains locked in a struggle with the virus,\u201d NHC official Wu Liangyou told reporters in recent days as Dalian government officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/13\/chinas-coronavirus-crisis-pounds-coastal-resort-city\/\">shut down<\/a> all non-essential travel out of the major port. Dalian municipal authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/northeastern-chinese-port-city-battles-growing-covid-19-cluster-2021-11-12\/\">ordered<\/a> all of the city\u2019s residents not to leave their homes except for essential outings \u2014 i.e., for food or medicine \u2014 for an indefinite amount of time on November 12.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party says it traced the nation\u2019s latest coronavirus outbreak to a Shanghai-based tour group that traveled to China\u2019s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in early-to-mid October. According to the party\u2019s official narrative, some of the tour group\u2019s members contracted coronavirus while visiting Ejin Banner, an Inner Mongolian frontier town that serves as a major port between China and Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth experts noted that exchanges of people and goods at the China-Mongolia port in Ejin Banner are highly likely to be the source of this round of infections, as almost all domestically transmitted cases were from tour groups,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em>, a newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237268.shtml\">relayed<\/a> on October 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s latest coronavirus epidemic has forced the country to transition from a \u201czero infection\u201d strategy to a \u201czero case policy,\u201d which encourages state officials to \u201cprevent viral transmission in communities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}