More Chinese cities announced new CCP virus cases over the weekend, with authorities announcing “wartime” mode one by one. “At present, the epidemic in our country has entered the stage of ‘multi-point outbreak.’… Over 20 cluster outbreaks have occurred in different regions,” Zhang Boli, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, wrote in his article published in state-run Health Times on Dec. 19. Some locals in the capital of Beijing and southwestern city of Chengdu told the Chinese-language Epoch Times in interviews that they heard of more diagnosed cases than what authorities announced. They were skeptical of the authorities’ narrative. Others complained that the lockdown policies were too restrictive and caused them severe mental stress. On Dec. 20, China’s National Health Commission announced more cases in the northern regions of Dalian city, Liaoning Province, and Heilongjiang Province. State-run newspaper Beijing …