Health worker commits suicide in Shanghai due to anti-Govt pressure

Low-quality local officials and volunteers working against the COVID-19 epidemic in China are under great pressure as the number of corona virus infections continues to rise amid frustration among residents who have been locked up in their homes.

According to the newspaper,Washington Post“Qian Wenxiang, a 55-year-old employee of the Health Commission office in Shanghai, committed suicide due to pressure to manage the corona virus outbreak in the city, according to several sources, but the health report. The cause of death was ignored by the commission office.

Throughout the epidemic, locks have often been successful in China because of a large network of “neighborhood groups” responsible for enforcing restrictions on movement and ensuring that people stay home and have access to food.

In Shanghai, these individuals have recently come under great pressure between frustrated people and the city’s failed logistics infrastructure.

The city has been subject to health measures since March, with many of its 25 million residents confined to their homes, while the number of daily infections exceeds 25,000, a normal number by international standards, but unprecedented in China.

Beijing emphasizes that the “zero Govt” strategy of severe closures, mass trials and long isolation periods has contributed to reducing the number of deaths and avoiding crises affecting public health systems in most parts of the world.

In addition to Wensiung’s suicide news, there were several leaked resignation letters and phone call records between officials and tired residents. As with efforts to control the virus, there was an official campaign in Shanghai to counter the negative news in the state media about the declining morale among anti-epidemic workers.

In a phone call recorded online last week, an angry local official told an elderly resident that he could not get the medical care he wanted and that he was waiting for a response from his superiors.

“What should we do? The day may come when I will have to resign because I can no longer cope,” he said.

After each incident, the Chinese state media take action, monitoring and interviewing disgruntled officials about how they experienced a moment of weakness, but not fully fulfilling the task at hand.

Chinese state media explain that the “resignation” of local officials fighting the epidemic is just a rumor.

In Shanghai, there have been persistent concerns about food availability amid frustration over the past few weeks and residents staying home.

During the third week of the city’s severe lockdown, the black market in Shanghai was active, with soft drinks, instant noodles, dried mangoes, potato chips and other groceries selling for two or three times their original price. City dweller who wrote stories of frustration for a newspaper. “Defender“.