{"id":1373159,"date":"2022-03-12T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373159"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:01:02","slug":"xi-jinping-missing-from-coronavirus-response-as-china-pivots-to-blame-silent-carriers-for-national-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-jinping-missing-from-coronavirus-response-as-china-pivots-to-blame-silent-carriers-for-national-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping Missing from Coronavirus Response as China Pivots to Blame &#039;Silent Carriers&#039; for National Outbreak"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fxi-jinping-missing-from-coronavirus-response-as-china-pivots-to-blame-silent-carriers-for-national-outbreak%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=1373159&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 nationwide \u201cspike\u201d in domestically transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases in recent days has been largely due to new asymptomatic infections or those contracted by \u201csilent carriers,\u201d China\u2019s state-run<em> Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1254599.shtml\">asserted<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC)\u00a0recorded 837 domestically transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases on March 9, of which 435 were considered asymptomatic infections.<\/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>March 9 marked \u201cthe third consecutive day that the Chinese mainland [the legal territory of China] reported daily new infections of over 500,\u201d the <em>Global Times <\/em>reported, citing Chinese public health data.<\/p>\n<p>While more than half of the new Chinese coronavirus cases registered Wednesday by the NHC allegedly consisted of \u201csilent carriers,\u201d as Beijing describes them, some Chinese regions said their local outbreaks of the disease were comprised of \u201cover 90 percent\u201d asymptomatic infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some places, asymptomatic cases accounted for over 90 percent of total confirmed cases, which is a major characteristic of the current outbreaks in multiple places,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> observed on March 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The severity of coronavirus cases has often had little impact on what China calls its \u201czero-Covid\u201d strategy of forcibly locking down neighborhoods, and sometimes entire cities, in response to the coronavirus spread.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the opinions of Chinese public health experts, the newspaper attempted to explain why China\u2019s allegedly asymptomatic caseload for the Chinese coronavirus was so exceptionally high in recent days, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, China has been enhancing the population\u2019s immunity, which could help prevent many from getting infected. However, as the virus continues to mutate, it results in mild or no symptoms, which explains why there are more asymptomatic cases amid current outbreaks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Global Times\u00a0<\/em>appeared to conclude that China\u2019s record-high new caseload proved the success of Beijing\u2019s stringent measures to contain the disease over the past two years, including the imposition of vaccine mandates on most of China\u2019s population of 1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19805738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1232030813.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo taken on March 30, 2021, shows a medical staff member (C) administering a dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a university in Qingdao in China\u2019s eastern Shandong province (STR\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons why there are so many asymptomatic infected people is because of mass immunization and the enhanced immunity of the population,\u201d Lu Hongzhou, director of the Third People\u2019s Hospital of Shenzhen, told the publication\u00a0on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese leader Xi Jinping has not commented publicly on China\u2019s latest resurgence of the Chinese coronavirus. He has seemingly focused instead on external matters, choosing to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2022-03-11\/Xi-congratulates-South-Korea-s-Yoon-on-presidential-election-victory-18jgawCEiNW\/index.html\">issue<\/a> his congratulations to South Korean President-Elect Yoon Suk-yeol on March 11 for winning South Korea\u2019s latest presidential election on March 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese ambassador to South Korea, Xing Haiming, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220311005251315?section=news\">visited<\/a> Yoon on March 11 in Seoul, where he personally delivered Yoon a \u201ccongratulatory\u201d letter written by Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>In the message, Xi addressed South Korea as a \u201cclose neighbor and important cooperation partner,\u201d according to South Korea\u2019s Yonhap News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year is an important year in the bilateral relationship between China and South Korea, as it marks 30 years since our establishment of diplomatic ties,\u201d Yonhap quoted the Chinese leader as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, Xi wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Together with the South Korean side, the Chinese side is willing to firmly defend the original intentions of our establishment of diplomatic ties and deepen our friendly cooperation to promote the stable and long-term development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership relationship and bring welfare to the two nations and our peoples.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Responding to the letter, Yoon told Ambassador Xing that \u201che is certain South Korea-China relations will develop further\u201d under his new presidential administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s nationwide \u201cspike\u201d in domestically transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases in recent days has been largely due to new asymptomatic infections or those contracted by \u201csilent carriers,\u201d China\u2019s state-run Global Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1373159","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\/1373159","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373159\/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=1373159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}