Never Lowering the Guard
At eight months pregnant, a woman from Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, lost her baby after being left waiting outside a local hospital for two hours due to expired nucleic acid test results, on January 1. Her heartbreaking experience occurred when the city was under closed-off management, introduced nine days earlier aiming to curb increasing COVID-19 cases.
Public outcry quickly triggered an official response. Liu Shunzhi, head of the Xi’an Health Commission, apologized at a press conference. The
