World News | China to stop criminal charges for violating COVID-19 response

Beijing [China]Jan. 7 (ANI): China has said it will no longer prosecute those who violate Covid-19 “prevention and control measures or border health and quarantine regulations” from Jan. 8, citing a circular issued by authorities, Chinese state media said. Litigation Saturday.

“Relevant cases in the process of being processed should be dealt with in a timely and expeditious manner in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law,” the document read, according to Xinhua.

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The notice added that criminal suspects and defendants detained for suspected violations and crimes will be released in accordance with the law, and property involved in the case that has been sealed, seized, or frozen will be released in accordance with the law.

On Jan. 8, China downgraded its management of COVID-19 from level A to level B and removed COVID-19 from its list of quarantineable infectious diseases, Xinhua reported.

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A massive outbreak has swept through China’s urban centers after disease controls were suddenly relaxed last month, according to CNN. World Health Organization (WHO) officials are increasingly calling for reliable information.

The United Nations health agency even accused China of “underestimating” the severity of the new crown epidemic and criticized its “narrow” definition of death from the new crown.

According to CNN, Mike Ryan, the WHO’s executive director of health emergencies, said that the figures released by China “do not fully reflect the true impact of the disease on hospitalization and intensive care unit admissions and deaths.”

Mike acknowledged that there was a lag in reporting hospital data in many countries, but pointed to China’s “narrow” definition of death from COVID-19 as part of the problem.

China’s foreign ministry this week dismissed the criticism, saying the country had been sharing epidemic information “timely, openly and transparently” and insisting its Covid situation was “under control”. (Arnie)

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