A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a 'strong' helping hand from Beijing.
BEIJING -- A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a "strong" helping hand from Beijing.
"Since this small town has assumed the responsibility for the epidemic prevention and control of the whole country, our motherland should extend a strong hand to protect this tortured child," wrote Dai Rongli, vice mayor of Ruili in 2018, on his WeChat account in a rare show of angst over China's COVID-19 curbs.This remote corner of China has been plagued with reports of asymptomatic carriers in recent days.
Although the tally is tiny compared with infections elsewhere in the world, the spread to more than a dozen provincial areas has forced officials to toughen restrictions, squeezing the service sector, including tourism and catering companies.
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