The health body of a city in China’s central Henan Province published a post online on Dec. 6, blasting the last three years of “zero-COVID” measures for ruining China’s economy and Chinese people’s livelihoods.
The Zhumadian municipal health committee wrote on its official Chinese social media account that there have been nine negative impacts from the central government’s policies of mandatory mass PCR testing and “excessive pandemic control measures.”
Zhumadian is a prefecture-level city in the south of Henan Province.
The municipal health watchdog’s criticism comes after China’s ruling communist party announced last month 20 new guidelines to “optimize the prevention and control measures” of COVID-19 nationwide, deemed as “relaxed COVID policies” by the outside world….