Zero-COVID Policy · Full chronicle and history

On September 17, residents in Guangzhou reported that a local district, in order to suppress the case data of "two fevers," sent personnel to the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital to intercept feverish residents seeking medical treatment across districts. Additionally, parents stated that because their children sought medical treatment in another district, the community organized multiple people to visit their homes for "ideological work," forcibly demanding they return to their own district for testing.

On September 11, the Guangdong Provincial CDC issued a marked confidential urgent notice (Guangdong CDC Transmission Prevention Letter [2026] No. 73), requiring strengthened prevention of chikungunya and dengue fever before and after the Mid‑Autumn and National Day holidays, including mandatory testing during heat, household inspections, meeting disinfection standards, and urging avoidance of excessive epidemic control that could spark public opinion.

Some communities in Huizhou, Guangdong, have set up nucleic acid monitoring points due to confirmed cases of Chikungunya fever, requiring full nucleic acid testing, which has caused panic among netizens.

Qatar's prime minister met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing and stated that it will overcome difficulties to prioritize securing China's energy supply. Program analysis believes this reflects the difficulties the Chinese Communist Party faces in energy supply, rather than obstacles for Qatar in oil exports. Qatar's move is seen as a statement that is more 'useful' than Egypt's in times of crisis.

In the early morning of September 18, 2022, a COVID-19 quarantine transfer bus overturned in Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, resulting in 27 deaths. On September 18, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the incident, the public took to the internet to commemorate the victims and reflect on pandemic prevention policies.

On March 28, 2022, Shanghai implemented a district-based lockdown divided by the Huangpu River, which was subsequently expanded to a citywide lockdown. It was not until June 1 that the lockdown was largely lifted. Over 20 million residents were confined to their homes for an extended period, leading to numerous secondary disasters such as food shortages and difficulties in accessing medical care.