Xi'an residents voice concerns on social media after govt shuts two hospitals

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BEIJING - Residents of a Chinese city locked down for three weeks are taking to social media to voice concerns about health risks after two hospitals were closed because their strict enforcement of v

irus rules led to patient deaths.

He said Friday he'd been given permission to finish the procedures. Dr Guo hasn't responded to attempts by Bloomberg News to contact him via China's Twitter-like Weibo platform. Authorities in Xi'an, a central city of 13 million people, on Thursday ordered both facilities to close for three months to undergo a"rectification" process.

The episode underscores a key challenge facing the government of President Xi Jinping, whose officials are struggling to strike a balance between enforcing policies including Covid Zero to the satisfaction of their bosses and making sure the public's needs are met.China is determined for its officials to have a firm grip on the nation of 1.4 billion people as the Winter Olympics approaches.

 

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