Passengers were unable to travel to the capital, Beijing, on a bullet train from the Chinese business hub of Shanghai in June ?
Halfway there, government officials wearing PPEs boarded the train and announced to Mike-Mike that all passengers had to get off the train, as one of the passengers came in contact with some people infected with Covid.
The Chinese people did not object to the crackdown in the early days of the Covid epidemic, because they felt that the government was doing what was good for them.
But last month, passengers on the Beijing-bound train were furious. They said, "No! Why should I get off? Why did you let such a man get on the train?"
But that objection was not washed away. Hundreds of miles away, they were all taken to a government isolation center.
China still adheres to the uncompromising "Zero Covid" policy, and is still taking extreme measures to prevent infection.
The Chinese president has repeatedly said that there is no other way.
After the first Covid infection spread in Wuhan, the whole of China was plunged into a giant security bubble. As a result, while more people were dying around the world, the southern death rate in China was much lower.
But China has to pay the price for this extra protection policy. Not only economic value, but also the threat to politics is increasing.
Vaccine levels in China are still low ?
It is not clear why China is slowing down their vaccination coverage where the rate of their vaccinated populations is still low.
That is why the government fears that if the infection goes out of control, the hospital will not be given a place and many people will die.
"Many people who are elderly or have health risks have not been given two doses or a booster dose of the vaccine. So we cannot give up," said Professor Liang Wanyan, a member of the Chinese National Health Commission, in a statement in March.
However, the vaccine program has recently been strengthened in China - 69 percent of people have been vaccinated with two doses. But according to official figures, only 56 percent of the eligible population received a booster dose.
Although the picture is a bit better now, it was much worse before the commas. Vaccine rates were particularly alarming in the elderly population. In Hong Kong, the lion's share of the dead were elderly and unvaccinated people.
After the outbreak of covid 19 infection in Shanghai in April, city officials said only 36 percent of people over the age of 60 had received or received the three-dose vaccine, and only 15 percent of those over the age of 60 had received the two-dose vaccine.
The picture is the same all over the country. For example, only 19.7 percent of people 60 years of age or older took a booster dose.
Why this delay in vaccination? Many in China think that the government brought Kovid under control until the Amicron variant arrived, reducing the importance of the vaccine.
Government officials have tried to portray Covid as a crisis in the outside world. They are mainly blaming people from abroad for spreading Covid . As a result, this has been established as true in China.
But why has the government not been more active with the vaccine?
PCR tests are mandatory during travel, but why not make vaccine records mandatory?
A number of foreign businesses in China have advised the government to fund long-term vaccination strategies without spending so much money on testing and implementing lock-downs.
Last week, Beijing's city authorities announced a change: access to cinemas, gyms, internet cafes, libraries, museums and many other places would require proof of the vaccine. But two days later, state media reported that it was not mandatory to show vaccine records.
But vaccine activity is just one aspect of the problem. Zero Covid has become a political challenge.
One of the reasons for the problem is that government officials have too much confidence in the Communist Party's campaign.
When other countries lifted the ban, Chinese government officials began to criticize it. They say it will never happen in China.
In June, President Xi Jinping paid a visit to the city where the Covid epidemic began. The official media reported, Mr. Shi went there and spoke of strengthening the 'Zero Cavid Policy'. To the local people, he said, people and people’s lives are the number one priority for his government.
He was quoted in various reports as saying that if China now embarked on a path of "hard immunity", the consequences could be "unimaginable".
While it is proving almost impossible to control the Amicron variant of Covid , the virus is being called 'defeated' and 'won the war' against the epidemic from the top of China's power.
As a result, many people in China believe that the virus can be eradicated if they try.
If the next congress of the Chinese Communist Party had been held a few more years later, the crisis would not have been such a headache for the government. But the party congress is only a few months away and Mr. Shi will seek approval to stay in power in the third round.
Former leader Dang Shaoping enacted the two-point rule with great force. The goal was to ensure that no one, like Mao Zedong, could remain in power for long.
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