Category: PCR test

Chinese Openly Oppose Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy Ahead of CCP Party Congress

Chinese citizens are openly expressing opposition to the communist regime’s highly restrictive zero-COVID policy, which has caused immense suffering, in the weeks before the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) national party meeting in mid-October. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in southwest China is sparking public anger over the policy. Early on Sept. 18, 27 people…


Province in China Locks Down High School Students and Staff Without Notifying Parents

Over 2,000 secondary school students and 300 teaching staff of a private high school in China’s southwestern Guizhou Province are locked down amid the communist regime’s zero-COVID policy. Guiyang Happy Valley International Experimental School was found to have “abnormal PCR test results” on Sept. 6, as reported by Netease, a popular digital news portal in…


China’s Chongqing City Forced to Lift Lockdown Amid Strong Protests

Large crowds of people took to the street on the night of Aug. 27, preparing to storm the barricades that blocked them from leaving their community in a subdistrict in China’s southwestern metropolis Chongqing. Lianfang subdistrict of Chongqing’s Shapingba district was locked down on Aug. 18. After 10 consecutive days of negative PCR tests of…


Refusing to Pay for Mass COVID Testing, China’s Medical Insurance Fund Shifts Responsibility to Local Governments

As of today, at least 10 Chinese metropolises, each with a population of over 10 million people, have required regular nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 of their citizens. The public is now questioning the cost incurred as well as who should pay those costs. Nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 are also known as PCR tests….


Hospitals in Chinese City Unable to Fulfill Mass PCR Testing Responsibilities: Leaked Document

China’s zero-COVID policy has triggered a new round of draconian lockdowns along with mass PCR testing of tens of millions of people. A government agency in Qingdao city, Shandong Province, conducted an undercover telephone survey of 77 hospitals in the city that advertise a variety of PCR testing services. The findings were far lower than…


New Brunswick Ends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Most Public Service Servants

New Brunswick says its COVID-19 vaccine mandate will no longer be a condition of employment for its civil servants come March 28. The announcement Friday, however, does not include employees working at health facilities, Ambulance New Brunswick, corrections, and those who provide health care services to patients residing in homes, including personal residences, special care…


New Brunswick Ends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Most Government Employees

New Brunswick says its COVID-19 vaccine mandate will no longer be a condition of employment for civil servants come March 28. The announcement on March 18, however, does not include employees working at health facilities, Ambulance New Brunswick, corrections, and those who provide health-care services to patients residing in homes, including personal residences, special care…


Ottawa to Remove Pre-Arrival COVID-19 PCR Test Requirement for Fully Vaccinated Travellers

Canada will drop its pre-arrival COVID-19 PCR test requirement for fully vaccinated travellers starting Feb. 28, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced today. Duclos said at a press conference on Feb. 15 that fully vaccinated travellers will still be required to take a pre-arrival test, but it can now be a rapid antigen test, as long…


Beijing 2022 Olympics: Belgian Skeleton Star Protests Continued Isolation

Belgian skeleton star Kim Meylemans updated on Feb. 3 that after the IOC’s involvement, she was finally given a room at the Beijing Olympic Village. The 25-year-old cried on social media on Feb. 2 as she explained that she was in an isolation facility after being quarantined for three days despite a number of negative…


Beijing 2022 Olympics: Belgian Skeleton Racer Moved to Olympic Village After Emotional Plea While in COVID Isolation

Belgian skeleton star Kim Meylemans, in a tearful social media video on Feb. 2, said she was placed in isolation after being quarantined for three days despite a number of negative COVID-19 tests, and worried that she couldn’t participate in the competition. The 25-year-old provided an update on Feb. 3, saying that after the IOC’s involvement, she…