Published 6 August 2021 at 23.46
Abroad. The spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to increase in China, with 124 new cases yesterday, reports Reuters.
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China's policy is once again focused on completely eradicating the coronavirus within the country's borders and the government has now cordoned off the areas that have erupted and initiated massive testing and infection tracing combined with the complete closure of workplaces, schools and other activities.
The Communist Party's newspaper Global Times defends, perhaps not entirely unexpectedly, the government's harsh measures, despite the fact that they involve great social and economic strains.
It is, according to the newspaper, only by eradicating the virus that one can learn to eradicate viruses. And once you know how to do it, efficiency can be sharpened and the measures made less stressful while maintaining the effect until next time.
“If the average social and economic cost of correcting a serious deficiency in infection control today is 100, then we can bring it down to 50 next year, and the following year to 25, until we get below 10. Only then can we future virus outbreaks in a genuinely humanitarian way “, the newspaper writes.
It is mainly within the EU as China's action against the virus has been criticized for being inhumane. However, criticism has been silenced when more than one million Europeans have died from the disease, while a total of 4,636 people have lost their lives in China.