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Write an Essay on Covid -19 Pandemic​

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A well-known academic in China has this week criticised the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, highlighting that it has caused widespread dissatisfaction in the country.

The emergence of criticism by academics, medical personnel, and netizens silenced by the authorities for ‘spreading rumours’ could herald a new strand of political dissent with the potential to outlast the current emergency.

Anger has been further stoked by the confirmed death of a whistleblower who was one of the first doctors who tried to warn against the spread of the virus, only to be reprimanded by police.

The swift spread of the coronavirus, first detected in early December in Wuhan, Hubei province, has led to more than 500 deaths – three-quarters of them in Wuhan – and more than 28,000 confirmed cases in China, according to official figures as of 6 February. Apart from China, Asia has seen some 200 confirmed cases, with around 55 cases elsewhere in Europe, North America and Australia. Many countries have travel restrictions in place.

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"A well-known academic in China has this week criticised the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, highlighting that it has caused widespread dissatisfaction in the country.

The emergence of criticism by academics, medical personnel, and netizens silenced by the authorities for ‘spreading rumours’ could herald a new strand of political dissent with the potential to outlast the current emergency.

Anger has been further stoked by the confirmed death of a whistleblower who was one of the first doctors who tried to warn against the spread of the virus, only to be reprimanded by police.

The swift spread of the coronavirus, first detected in early December in Wuhan, Hubei province, has led to more than 500 deaths – three-quarters of them in Wuhan – and more than 28,000 confirmed cases in China, according to official figures as of 6 February. Apart from China, Asia has seen some 200 confirmed cases, with around 55 cases elsewhere in Europe, North America and Australia. Many countries have travel restrictions in place.

Wuhan has been in lockdown since 23 January. Universities and schools remain shut and the knock-on effects of travel disruption and factory shutdowns are beginning to affect economic activity in several provinces.

Tsinghua University Law Professor Xu Zhangrun published an essay online this week saying the government’s handling of the crisis had put millions of people at risk and was unprecedented in the way it has exposed institutional weakness in the country.

“The anger of the people has erupted like a volcano, and the angry people will no longer be afraid,” he wrote in the essay dated 4 February. Xu Zhangrun was stripped of his teaching position at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University in 2018 after a previous outspoken essay criticising the lifting of the two term limit for Chinese presidents which will extend Xi Jinping’s term in office.

Another prominent law academic, Xu Zhiyong, a former lecturer at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, sentenced to four years in prison in January 2014 for his role in organising a citizens’ movement in 2013, published an article on social media on Tuesday in which he urged Xi to step down for his “inability to handle major crises”, citing several examples, including the China-US trade war, anti-government protests in Hong Kong and the coronavirus outbreak.

In his latest article he said Beijing had put officials’ loyalty above competence. “The mess in Hubei is only the tip of the iceberg and it’s the same with every province,” he wrote. Xu Zhiyong also said the suppression of civil society and freedom of expression made it impossible for people to raise the alarm about the outbreak.

“All chances of public discussions have been smothered, and so was the original alarm mechanism in society,” Xu Zhiyong said of Communist Party censorship of social media posts on the outbreak.

The Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement on 5 February that it was tightening supervision of social media. This comes in the wake of a directive two days earlier from President Xi Jinping, who said the government needed to strengthen online media controls to maintain social stability amid the coronavirus crisis, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

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