” Day PASSES”
Users who favored the original account of Li Wenliang, a whistleblower doctor who was under investigation by the police for releasing early information about the virus, did not directly mention the anniversary on the favorite Weibo platform.
” Dr. Li, another year has gone by”, read one post on Saturday. ” How immediately time passes”.
In Hong Kong, where Beijing generally suppressed antagonism voices when it imposed a comprehensive national security law in the semi-autonomous town in 2020, there was little online memorial.
China has no constructed significant shrines to those who lost their lives during the pandemic, unlike other nations.
Little is known about the personality of the first COVID-19 fatality other than that he frequently visited a Wuhan seafood business, where the disease is thought to have spread during the first outbreak.
Different nations reported their first cases of the disease within days of his death, demonstrating that official efforts to stop its multiply had failed.
China eventually received criticism from Western governments for allegedly concealing the virus’s early transmission and exposing evidence of its origins, despite Beijing’s vehement claim that it acted firmly and in full transparency.
According to the World Health Organization, China has publicly reported almost 100 million COVID-19 situations and 122, 000 deaths to time, although the true amount will probably never be known.
In 2023, Beijing declared a “decisive success” over COVID-19, calling its answer a “miracle in human story”.