AP Revealed The Whole Story Of China’s Hasty End To Zero-COVID Policy

Recently, the Associated Press (AP) published an investigative report, revealing the whole story of CCP’s hasty ending to the zero-COVID policy through data models, a large number of interviews, and internal reports and instructions. The report pointed out that by the end of 2021, Communist China’s public health experts and leaders began to think about easing COVID-19 pandemic control measures. The State Council of Communist China issued a report in March 2022, advising the Communist China government to prepare for the reopening of society, including promoting vaccination and stockpiling antiviral drugs. However, the outbreak of the pandemic in Hong Kong and Shanghai caused the Communist China government to panic and lose the courage to loosen the control measures.

In addition, the 20th National Congress of the CCP will be held in October 2022, which has caused officials nationwide to take extraordinary measures to prevent the spread of the new Omicron variant. After the 20th National Congress of the CCP, the public health department began to raise voices for deregulation. At that time, the pandemic broke out all over the country again, and the “White Paper Movement” against the pandemic blockade broke out in many places across China in late November. Only few days later, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, known as the “Zeroing Tsar,” presided over a dedicated meeting to inform related experts that the CCP was ready to quickly end the zero-COVID policy. The final decision to reopen society was made abruptly, almost without any direct input from public health experts. Many in the government believed that the protests hastened Xi Jinping’s complete lifting of the lockdown measures.

Due to the lack of preparations for deregulation, nearly 1 billion people across the country were infected in just six weeks. According to Miles Guo’s revelations, the death toll during the COVID-19 pandemic in Communist China at the end of December last year reached tens of millions, which is quite different from the number reported by the CCP authority to the world.