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This aerial photo taken on January 16, 2021 shows the under-construction centralized quarantine facilities, where people at risk of contracting the Covid-19 coronavirus are to be taken into quarantine in Shijiazhuang, in northern Hebei province after the province declared an “emergency state”. (Photo by STR \/ CNS \/ AFP) \/ China OUT (Photo by STR\/CNS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
BY ALEX WU
\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n
The Chinese regime has notified local authorities to prepare for a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19, according to leaked internal documents obtained by the\u00a0Chinese Epoch Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n One document, titled\u00a0\u201cNotice of Further Strengthening of Epidemic Prevention\u201d was\u00a0issued by the Chinese regime\u2019s State Council, and forwarded by\u00a0Fujian<\/a>\u00a0provincial government to local authorities on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n The other is a \u201cNational Day Epidemic Prevention Notice\u201d issued by the State Council on Oct. 1 and distributed by the Fujian provincial officials to local authorities.<\/p>\n The documents are both marked \u201cextra urgent.\u201d<\/p>\n Both notices request enhanced preparations for an emergency response to the outbreak, with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) putting forward at least two standards for local authorities.<\/p>\n One is to build central isolation sites, with local authorities required by the end of October to set up isolation centers and rooms of not less than 20 rooms per 10,000 people. The scale of each isolation site must be more than 100 rooms.<\/p>\n According to public data, the population of Fujian Province in 2020 was 41.54 million. As of Sept. 19, the province has set up 35,691 quarantine rooms in 296 central sites.<\/p>\n Based on the standard in the epidemic prevention notice, Fujian Province will need to build at least 83,000 quarantine rooms by the end of October, which is around 47,000 rooms in less than a month.<\/p>\n According to one expert, the\u00a0requirements for the COVID-19 quarantine sites reveal the real situation of the pandemic in China.<\/p>\n Dr. Sean Lin, a former virology researcher at the U.S. Army Research Institute, told The Epoch Times: \u201cThis reflects the CCP\u2019s concern about the rise of the epidemic. It must have been concealing the true epidemic in mainland China, otherwise it would not suddenly issue a national notice of emergency preparedness.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNotice of Further Strengthening of Epidemic Prevention\u201d requires the establishment of a five-layered control system.<\/p>\n It states: \u201cTownship and street CCP cadres, community grid staff, grassroots medical workers, police, and volunteers shall jointly implement community epidemic prevention,\u201d such as \u201cstrictly implement[ing] community prevention and control,\u201d or locking down residential communities.<\/p>\n Lin said that the control system is actually to tighten social management in local areas, and \u201cthe CCP\u2019s purpose is to tighten control.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is no nucleic acid test, all the CCP\u2019s epidemic prevention measures are the same as political campaigns. For example, you can be quarantined at any time and put in a quarantine site. And the quarantine sites can also be a place of political persecution,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter who you are, as long as the CCP says that you tested positive in a nucleic acid test, it will deprive you of all your rights. The CCP\u2019s quarantine sites are actually an alternative form of\u00a0concentration camp<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n