{"id":1213447,"date":"2022-01-13T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213447"},"modified":"2022-01-13T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:49:15","slug":"china-jailing-cargo-workers-for-4-years-over-dubious-claim-coronavirus-came-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-jailing-cargo-workers-for-4-years-over-dubious-claim-coronavirus-came-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"China Jailing Cargo Workers for 4 Years over Dubious Claim Coronavirus Came from Abroad"},"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\">28<\/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-jailing-cargo-workers-for-4-years-over-dubious-claim-coronavirus-came-from-abroad%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=1213447&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\">A court in China\u2019s northeastern port city of Dalian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1245676.shtml\">sentenced<\/a> three former employees of a local cargo handling company to roughly four years in prison last week after convicting them of violating anti-coronavirus protocol at their place of work and subsequently causing a local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three defendants, two surnamed Fu and one surnamed Zhang \u2026 were sentenced to jail for the crime of violating the rules of prevention and treatment of infectious disease,\u201d the Chinese state-run newspaper revealed on January 11. The court additionally fined the company that employed the defendants \u201c800,000 yuan ($125,478)\u201d for the offense.<\/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>\u201cZhang neglected his supervision over operating personnel who did not wear masks according to requirements and [ate] meals in contaminated protective garments,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> detailed.<\/p>\n<p>Another defendant surnamed Fu allowed his subordinates to check into a Dalian hotel but \u201cfailed to inform the hotel operator of the company employees\u2019 work content of handling imported cold-chain goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defendant Zhang also allegedly organized after-work social gatherings for his employees that allowed them to expose the greater Dalian community to their personal Chinese coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19471458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1227809928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19471458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1227809928-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A health worker carries out a COVID-19 coronavirus test on a resident at a makeshift testing centre in Dalian, in China\u2019s northeast Liaoning province. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter the employees quit their job, they were not quarantined, did not take nucleic acid tests or monitor their health conditions for the following 14 days according to epidemic prevention regulations, which led to several merchants and consumers at a shopping mall contracting the virus,\u201d according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party has repeatedly claimed that the Chinese coronavirus \u2014 which originated in central China\u2019s Wuhan city in the fall or winter of 2019 and spread globally to cause an ongoing pandemic \u2014 has been \u201cimported\u201d back into China via the handling of foreign-origin frozen goods at cargo ports such as Dalian.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing argues that this alleged method of transmission has devastated port communities by causing local outbreaks of the Chinese coronavirus over the past year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Ratcliffe stated Monday that the notion of the coronavirus escaping from China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is \u201cvery close to a certainty.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KOzHHJVNOW\">https:\/\/t.co\/KOzHHJVNOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1422519108042731521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Communist Party continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/03\/china-punishes-frozen-food-shippers-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">push<\/a> this narrative despite evidence by global health authorities suggesting that the disease is not easily transmitted via surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is through exposure to respiratory droplets carrying infectious virus,\u201d the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/more\/science-and-research\/surface-transmission.html\">writes<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,\u201d according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19,\u201d also known as the Chinese coronavirus, is the name of the disease caused by a type of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in China\u2019s northeastern port city of Dalian sentenced three former employees of a local cargo handling company to roughly four years in prison last week after convicting them &#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-1213447","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\/1213447","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=1213447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213447\/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=1213447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}