Jan. 16, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| Shijiazhang, the capital city of Hebei province in northern China, has become a CCP virus hotspot. | |
| The newly confirmed cases in the past week involve several local schools and a kindergarten. | |
| The biggest challenge in this round of outbreak, according to the local health commission, is that more than 30% of the confirmed cases had false negative readings, three to five times before the patient finally tested positive. | |
| At least 38 confirmed cases are related to local schools, including 5 teachers, 6 staff, and 27 students. | |
| All 38 have symptoms, and it remains unknown how many asymptomatic patients there are in these schools, as the test results have proven to be unreliable. | |
| A 15-year-old high school student, diagnosed on January 15, was the first case reported from Gaocheng No. | |
| 7 Middle School. | |
| Soon after, more students, teachers, and canteen staff at this school were diagnosed with the CCP virus. | |
| In two nearby elementary schools, several students were infected. | |
| In another high school, a teacher was diagnosed on January 7, and some of his neighbors were then confirmed to be infected. | |
| The teacher who was diagnosed has been taken away. | |
| All his neighbors whose current test results are negative are in self-quarantine at home. | |
| No one is allowed to enter or leave the community. | |
| We have to stay at home. | |
| The youngest infected is a four-year-old kindergartner who was diagnosed on January 13th. | |
| In addition, five college students were diagnosed with the virus. | |
| Three of them went to universities in Hebei Province, and two just returned home from southern Chinese cities. | |
| About 87% of the confirmed patients live in Gaocheng District, which is currently the only district designated as a high-risk area in Hebei Province. | |
| According to a local villager who posted a video to explain the situation, the first group of patients did not link their mild symptoms with the CCP virus because the entire Hebei province had bragged about zero domestic cases for months. | |
| As a result, they went to the village clinic to get prescriptions for flu or fever and kept spreading the virus in the community. | |
| It was until an early woman, who appeared to have a particularly serious cold, had to go to a former hospital that the doctors discovered the CCP virus had already been spreading in Gaocheng District. | |
| The woman was diagnosed on January 2. | |
| Hebei authorities have ordered the construction of makeshift hospitals in multiple cities. | |
| A video taken on January 13 showed that workers are working day and night to build a makeshift hospital with 3,000 isolation wards in Shijiazhang City. | |
| Hebei Health Commission reported that the new outbreak was very challenging and complicated because many patients had false negative results three to five times before they were diagnosed. | |
| Two weeks ago, Dalian city of Liaoning province, another virus hotspot, reported that a patient had false negative results 10 times before his 11th test came out positive. | |
| As early as March last year, researchers in Spain, India, and the Czech Republic found that China's test kits gave incorrect results 70% of the time. | |
| Insiders in China's medical community recently told Radio Free Asia that they were all aware of the low-accuracy problem with the Chinese-made test kits. |
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