Chinese Foreign Ministry Threatens to Retaliate Countries Restricting Chinese Entry Chinese

Foreign Ministrypromised to respond to countries that, due to the COVID outbreak, introduce PCR tests for Chinese citizens or otherwise restrict their entry. According to a department spokesman,

Beijing will retaliate against those countries that have imposed entry restrictions on Chinese citizens under the pretext of preventive measures to combat COVID-19 . This was stated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning, reports the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China "People's Daily".

“We are ready to strengthen ties with the international community and work together to overcome the epidemic. At the same time, we believe that some countries do not have scientific justification for imposing restrictions on entry from China, and some excessive practices are even more unacceptable,” she said.

Mao Ning promised that if such practices are applied to Chinese citizens, Beijing will take action "in accordance with the principle of reciprocity."

Bloomberg learned about the "paralysis of the system" in China due to deaths from COVID Society

China began phasing out its "zero tolerance" policy for COVID-19 in early December, following massive anti-lockdown protests in the country. In particular, the country canceled indiscriminate universal PCR testing, and asymptomatic patients and those with mild COVID-19 were allowed to remain in home quarantine without mandatory hospitalization.

After that, the country experienced a record outbreak of coronavirus cases: in December, almost 250 million people in China were infected with COVID-19, Bloomberg reported on December 23, citing classified data from the Chinese Health Committee. The authorities did not confirm this information: according to official data, 3.7 thousand new cases of coronavirus were detected in the country on December 22, and the total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic reached 393 thousand. Then the country stopped publishing daily data on the incidence.

Against the backdrop of an increase in infections in China, some countries have begun to require tests from visitors from China or have introduced other control measures. Among them: USA , India, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Australia and other countries.

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On January 4, Bloomberg, based on a survey of eyewitnesses, funeral professionals and experts, reported that a sharp increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in China led to the fact that the crematoriums in the country overflowed.

Thus, employees of funeral homes in Beijing and Shanghai told the agency that crematoriums work every night, and the nearest free place for the cremation ceremony of the dead is only in mid-January.