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Death of boy in lockdown fuels backlash against China's zero-COVID policy
Nectar Gan
CNN Digital
Published Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:01AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:58PM EDT
The death of a 3-year-old boy following a suspected gas leak at a locked down residential compound in northwestern China has triggered a fresh wave of outrage at the country's stringent zero-COVID policy.
The boy's father claimed in a social media post that COVID workers tried to prevent him from leaving their compound in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, to seek treatment for his child -- causing a delay that he believes proved fatal.
A social media post by the father on Wednesday about his son's death was met with an outpouring of public anger and grief, with several related hashtags racking up hundreds of millions of views over the following day on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.
"Three years of pandemic was his entire life," a popular comment read...
Death of boy in lockdown fuels backlash against China's zero-COVID policy
Nectar Gan
CNN Digital
Published Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:01AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:58PM EDT
The death of a 3-year-old boy following a suspected gas leak at a locked down residential compound in northwestern China has triggered a fresh wave of outrage at the country's stringent zero-COVID policy.
The boy's father claimed in a social media post that COVID workers tried to prevent him from leaving their compound in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, to seek treatment for his child -- causing a delay that he believes proved fatal.
A social media post by the father on Wednesday about his son's death was met with an outpouring of public anger and grief, with several related hashtags racking up hundreds of millions of views over the following day on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.
"Three years of pandemic was his entire life," a popular comment read...
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