In the recent days, China’s state media have been reporting that COVID-19 is surging in different parts of the country, leading to international events being postponed, districts going into lockdown, and residents in outbreak areas being tested overnight. Local authorities in Yingkou City of China’s northeastern Liaoning province on May 15 reported 13 local cases of COVID-19 transmission all linked to a photography studio. Nine areas across the city of 2 million people have been elevated to medium COVID-19 risk, and tens of thousands of residents were lining up to be tested overnight. According to the official report, all confirmed cases are employees of the local “Golden Childhood Photography Studio” and are also close contacts of individuals, Li and Lu, who tested positive in Anhui province on May 13. This has led to local Chinese communist officials in Anhui and Liaoning blaming each other for being the source of the outbreak. On May 13, five cases …