Many people shouted "all are lies" when Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chun Lan inspected an apartment complex in Wuhan City yesterday.

Sun Chunlan went to an apartment complex in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, the capital of Hubei province, on March 5 to inspect the activities of a committee that takes care of people during blockade the building.

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Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chunlan (black shirt) inspected Wuhan City on February 2 Photo: Xinhua

Video circulated on social media showed that when Ms. Sun and a group of officials walked along the apartment yard, people on the floors shouted through the window that "fake, all fake", or "we oppose "," formalism ".

Since January 12, all apartments in Wuhan have been blocked, and people have been banned from leaving their homes to prevent nCoV from spreading. Each neighborhood committee is responsible for everything from arranging for people to the hospital to visit, quarantining suspected or infected people, checking body temperature and providing medicine and food.

However, many residents complained that they did not receive the necessary support, while community officials said they were overwhelmed. Many people have been living on group-based online shopping for two months now. Supermarkets practice meeting demand for goods, but some are dissatisfied with the price and quality of the food they order in groups.

In an unusual move, Chinese state-run media today posted this video instead of censoring as usual. People’s Daily posted a video with English subtitles featuring a person shouting "fake, fake", but later removed the page.

According to CCTV, Ms. Sun immediately organized a meeting to resolve people's concerns. Her assistants were asked to inquire about each household in the apartment building.

Observers say that Chinese state-run media are reporting the incident in their own right, and this is an opportunity for the government to respond to people's frustrations after the wave of anger involved in hiding scenes. Early notice on Covid-19.

"We can solve problems by not covering them up," said a WeChat account "Taoran Notes" affiliated with the Chinese government. "We have to face problems in a practical way to gain understanding and support from the masses."

The versions of the video are still shared on Chinese social networks today. "If people don't get pushed to the end, they won't scream like that," a commenter on social networking site Weibo.

The National Health Commission of China (NHC) said today for the first time since Covid-19 broke out, Hubei province did not register any new infections, except the Wuhan capital of 126 cases. Hubei also recorded 29 new deaths, including 23 cases in Wuhan. Provinces outside of Hubei recorded 17 new cases.

Professor Cecilia Cheung, a member of the Chinese government's Covid-19 crisis management group, estimates that the cities of Hubei will reach their goal of zero new infections by mid-March and that Wuhan will be over. new cases at the end of the month.