(ANSA) - BEIJING, FEBRUARY 16 - President Xi Jinping had been aware of the coronavirus emergency since January 7, in spite of a first official intervention 13 days later, on January 20, when his directive prompted the Communist Party committees and the governments of each level "to take adequate measures to curb the spread of the epidemic".
In order to allay the controversy mounted above all suisocial on the management of the crisis, Qiushi, the most important conservative of the Chinese Communist Party, published, in the latest issue of the press, a speech by Xi on February 3, in which the president says he "gave continuously verbal and written instructions "since the beginning of January and having personally ordered the quarantine of about 60 million people with closure in the province of Hubei. "From the first day of the Lunar New Year to today, the prevention and control of epidemic situation has been the issue I have been most concerned about," claims Xi, in the text published by the CCP's 'bible'.
Xi knew of emergency since January 7th
2020-02-16T13:48:11.497Z
President Xi Jinping had been aware of the coronavirus emergency since January 7, despite an initial official intervention 13 days later, on January 20, when his directive prompted the Communist Party committees and governments of all l ... (HANDLE)
