A confirmed COVID-19 patient returned from Wuhan on Saturday to Beijing, leading to questions over the management of the Wuhan government again two days after it issued a traffic easing policy but retracted it hours later.
Such questions against Wuhan government have lurked on Chinese social media for days, as the central government repeated that channels to and out of Wuhan must be strictly controlled to win the battle against the epidemic.
The woman, surnamed Huang, was found on Monday in a residential community in Dongcheng district. She came to Beijing from Wuhan on Saturday and underwent inspection right after her arrival, as she had been suffering intermittent fevers and throat pain since February 18 in Wuhan, said the Beijing Center for Diseases Prevention and Control on Wednesday.
Hubei authorities launched a thorough investigation on Wednesday night to look into the matter.
The woman is an ex-convict who had just been released from a Wuhan prison and was diagnosed in Wuhan. As she was from Beijing, after being released from prison, her family drove her back to the capital in a car.
The issue triggered heated discussion on Chinese social media with netizens questioning why she was able to break through the walls of Wuhan and ride to Beijing with her relatives?
The epidemic situation in Wuhan and Hubei is still complex and if the spread of the virus is not curbed, it could put the previous efforts in vain and lead to a virus resurgence, experts warned.
Wuhan residents have to submit an application and get it approved by the epidemic prevention and control authority before getting a pass to leave Wuhan, the approval will only be given to residents with special needs.
A confirmed COVID-19 patient returned from Wuhan on Saturday to Beijing, leading to questions over the management of the Wuhan government again two days after it issued a traffic easing policy but retracted it hours later.
The woman is an ex-convict who had just been released from a Wuhan prison and was diagnosed in Wuhan. As she was from Beijing, after being released from prison, her family drove her back to the capital in a car.
