Liwan district community workers and health officials broke locks and entered 84 homes on July 10, after close contacts of Covid-19 patients were found hiding at home, some of whom later tested positive. , according to the official Global Times newspaper.In a statement, district officials admitted the action was "rude" and "insensitive" and promised to reward affected residents."The practice of emergency home investigation is very simple and crude and ignores the feelings of residents," the district headquarters of the epidemic prevention and control commission said in a statement.An investigation team was set up to punish those involved, he added.Chinese authorities are imposing increasingly extreme measures to safeguard the 'zero cases' strategy of covid-19.The strategy includes isolating all positive cases and close contacts, blocking entire neighborhoods or cities, and carrying out mass testing when outbreaks are detected.The measures also bolstered the powers of neighborhood committees, which the Chinese Communist Party relies on to spread policy and propaganda at the local level, and even to resolve personal disputes.Several cases of police officers and committee officials breaking into homes in China have been documented on social media.In some cases, doors were forced open and residents threatened with punishment, even after testing negative for the virus.Committees also frequently mount sheet metal barriers at the entrances to neighborhoods and buildings and block apartment doors with steel bars to prevent residents from leaving the house or the residential complex.China's communist leaders exercise strict control over the government, the police and various instruments of social control.Most citizens are used to the lack of privacy and restrictions on freedom of expression and the right to assemble.However, stringent epidemic prevention measures have tested this tolerance, particularly in Shanghai, where a relentless and often chaotic lockdown has resulted in protests on social media and clashes between residents and staff over a lack of access to food, health care and other basic goods.Beijing officials have taken a softer approach, worried about stirring up unrest in the capital ahead of a major Communist Party meeting in autumn, at which Party Chairman and Leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third term of office. five years.The zero-tolerance strategy for the disease was pointed out as necessary, to prevent a wider outbreak among a population that has less natural immunity.Although China's vaccination rate is around 90%, it is considerably lower among the elderly.Questions were also raised about the effectiveness of vaccines produced domestically in China.Although the Chinese group Fosun has agreed to distribute and eventually manufacture the messenger RNA vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, it has not been approved for use in mainland China.Studies have consistently shown that inoculation with messenger RNA vaccines offers better protection against hospitalization and death from Covid-19.Chinese vaccines made using older technology have been shown to be quite effective against the original strain of the virus, but much less so against the newer variants.Notifications blocked by browserInformation has value.Please consider supporting this project by turning off your Ad Blocker.