The suspicion is that there have been many more Covid-19 deaths as well as severe cases. The government has promoted positive videos of officials encouraging frontline workers and promising ample supplies of food and medicine. They liaise with suppliers, but most of the cadres in his community had been infected, Wang has said. The community-level police were infected, community-level cadres were infected, volunteers were infected and then the following batch of volunteers were also infected,” Wang has said. Local officials were reported to be at breaking point, unable to separately quarantine positive cases and close contacts, or keep up with food supplies to them.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2022 17:45 UTC