China: Three-year-old boy dies due to strict measures for coronavirus – Police apologize

Shock and emotion has caused in China The death of a three-year-old child which did not receive proper care due to strict health measures to stop the coronavirus pandemic.

Images widely circulated on social media on Tuesday show residents of Lanzhou, in northwest China, paying desperate attempts to revive a child after he was poisoned by carbon monoxide.

In his message, Mr father he complains to him about the delay in providing assistance and the fact that he couldn’t leave his house because of the lockdown in town. Residents expressed their anger.

This case caused emotion at the beginning of the week and there was one wave of messages on the internet against the intransigent policy of zero tolerance on COVID-19.

“His whole life was the three years of the pandemicwrote a netizen with the pseudonym Tuo, referring to the child’s age.

As APE-MPE notes, the so-called policy of zero cases of COVID-19 foresees isolation as soon as positive cases appear, mass tests, but also various degrees of lockdown, involving from neighborhoods to even entire cities.

Residents protest the measures, which sometimes cause food shortages and complicate access to health care for people who need it.

Local police today released a detailed account of the events surrounding the death of the 3-year-old child and expressed their “sincere condolences” to the parents.

“We sincerely accept the criticism as well as the scrutiny of the media and netizens (…) to prevent such accidents from happening again,” Lanzhou police also said in an unusual statement of regret.

This is the latest in a series of health emergencies that have been hampered by the zero-tolerance policy on COVID-19.

In the last month, the death of a 14-year-old teenage girl who did not receive treatment while in quarantine;also caused outrage in the country.

Internet censors quickly deleted all mention of the incident.

In January, a pregnant woman miscarried at the door of a hospital in Xi’an, northern China, due to the absence of a valid PCR test for the new coronavirus.