Excessive outrage has been trigerred in China as Xi’s rigid zero-covid policy is being blamed for the death of a three-year-old boy in a suspected gas leak. The incident happened at a locked-down residetial compound in northwestern China. The father of the deceased child blamed the authorities and the delay in the treatment and stated in a social edia post that Covid woekers triedto prohibit thrm from leaving their compoundin Lanzhou. The strict covid norms proved fatal for their family.”My child might have been saved if he had been taken to the hospital sooner,” he wrote. Weibo, China’s Twitter-like site with hundreds of millions of views, experienced a great deal of popular outrage and anguish as a result of the tragedy.
Workers at Covid attempted to keep him from leaving their property in Lanzhou, the provincial capital of Gansu
According to CNN, who cited the man’s social media post, the mother and infant both became ill and displayed symptoms of gas poisoning. The mother’s vital signs got better, but the 3-year-old boy died from a deadly gas leak.
Every day, at least 1,000 new cases of the virus are discovered in China, forcing the government to implement its harsh “Zero covid policy,” which has made the Chinese people fearful, angry, and perplexed. The Zero Covid policy in China has made thousands of people live in appalling conditions.
On social media, residents occasionally aired their rage. Unknown protester placed a banner with the words “National Congress” next to the event’s location “Reject the Covid test and say yes to food. Yes to freedom, no to lockdown. No to lying; yes to honour.” Go on strike, get rid of the dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping, read another banner.
Many protesters opposing the Zero Covid policy showed up in Lhasa, Tibet, a city that is typically calm. According to Africa Daily Digital, migrant Chinese Han people made up the majority of the protesters.
Due to the severe income and job losses caused by Zero Covid, many are worried about their future.