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Subtle message in Xi Jinping’s face mask during coronavirus hospital visit in Beijing

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first appearance since the coronavirus outbreak this week is revealed to have carried a subtle message.

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February 15, 20207:15am

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Xi Jinping donned a protective mask during his first public appearance after the coronavirus outbreak — but it carried a subtle message. (Pang Xinglei/Xinhua via AP, File)Source:AP


China’s President Xi Jinping has hailed “hard-won progress” to halt the spread of coronavirus, as experts fear we have not yet seen the peak of the deadly disease.

The Chinese leader chaired a meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee on Wednesday claiming strict quarantine measures in the country were working.

“The results are hard-won progress made by all sides,” Xi said.

He also demanded an improvement for patient treatment and to “restore economic and social” order, according to Chinese state media reports.

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It comes after a visit to Beijing earlier this week in which the Chinese leader wore a blue surgical mask to send a subtle message in his first public appearance since the outbreak began.

He met with doctors and was photographed having his body temperature taken with an infra-red thermometer.

He smiled as he waved to members of the public, and at one point even joked to the surrounding media crowd: “Let’s not shake hands.”

Experts have repeatedly said the basic mask does not make for effective protection against the virus, unlike the more expensive and increasingly scarce N95 masks.

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‘TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE’

It doesn’t help that Mr Xi went nowhere near Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, for his mask stunt. The Beijing hospital he visited was over 1000 kilometres away from the locked down zone, where there has been over 1000 deaths.

The coronavirus death toll has risen to 1486 with a total of 65,213 confirmed cases, making an increase on yesterday’s whopping jump. Chinese authorities are facing intense scrutiny over the accuracy of figures in the outbreak, with many claiming the virus could become the “Chernobyl moment” for the leadership.

China’s Hubei province reported an extra 4823 coronavirus infection cases and 116 new deaths, in the second day after the region at the centre of the outbreak changed its method for counting infections.

This was lower than the 14,840 cases that Hubei added when it first started counting patients with the new method.

On Thursday the coronavirus broke a tragic record with the deadly illness killing 242 people in China in a single day. The 242 deaths from Hubei were more than double the announcement of the previous day.

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