After reporting extremely low numbers of cases of the coronavirus infection in China for many days, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to report on imported cases to show that China is “clean” but the world is “a mass,” and that China is able to treat the coronavirus but the world is not.
Beijing seemed to be making a “perfect” case against the United States.
On March 13, the Beijing Health Commission reported a confirmed case of infection of a patient traveling from the United States to Beijing. Ms. Li, who lived in Boston, said that she attended a company meeting on February 26 and 27 and a colleague at the meeting was later confirmed to have the Coronavirus. On March 1, she started to feel cold and later had a fever and a high temperature of 39 Celsius (102.2 Fahrenheit). She went to the hospital four times but was not admitted for hospitalization. She requested a nucleic acid test three times but her requests were all denied.
Therefore, she and her husband and son took a plane to fly back to China via Los Angles for diagnosis and treatment. Upon arriving in Beijing on March 13, she was confirmed to have the infection. Her husband and son were suspected cases.
However, this “exemplar” case started to show some flaws. On March 15, Zhang Yun, General Manager of Air China’s Product Service Department, disclosed more information about Ms. Li’s travels. During the boarding process, the CA988 flight attendants measured every traveler and found no one had a high temperature. An hour after the plane took off, Ms. Li, who was in seat 40B told the flight attendant that she felt shortness of breath and had a lack of energy. She claimed that she was traveling by herself, didn’t take any medicine before boarding the plane, and had a short period of fever a week ago. Her temperature test was 36.4 Celsius (97.5 Fahrenheit). She was moved to the end row and given a designated bathroom for quarantine purpose. Flight attendants tested her temperature four more times. All showed it was below 37 Celsius (98.6 Fahrenheit).
Two hours before landing in Beijing, she told the flight attendants that colleagues in her company in the U.S. had been confirmed to have the coronavirus infection. She said she had a fever in the U.S. She also said she took antipyretics to reduce her temperature before boarding the plane and that her husband and son were also on the plane in seats 54K and 54L.
The flight attendants immediately moved her husband and son to the same quarantine area with her.
The Paper reported this story, with the title “Speechless! A Lady Took Antipyretics to Fly with Family to Beijing and Told Major Lies on the Flight!”
Epoch Times reported that there were more lies in the story. According to people in the U.S. who know Ms. Li, she had already been confirmed to have the Coronavirus infection. Since her symptoms were mild and she did not meet the standard for hospitalization, she was asked to self-quarantine at home. Instead she flew back to China and lied that she had not been confirmed to have the infection in the U.S.
She was an employee at Biogen Inc., whose meeting at the end of February had resulted in massive infections. By March 14, among the 138 confirmed cases in Massachusetts, 104 cases were related to Biogen.
One person commented, “How many more people might have been infected because of her? From her home to Boston, at the Boston Airport, on the plane to LA, at the LA Airport, and then on the plane to Beijing!”
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1. Excerpt in Chinese:
根据北京市卫健委通报，3月13日0时至24时，北京新增报告境外输入新冠肺炎确诊病例1例，为来自美国的境外输入病例。
这是3月10日北京首现来自美国的境外输入病例后，第二例来自美国的确诊病例。
市疾控中心副主任庞星火介绍了这例美国输入病例，黎某，国内户籍地为重庆市，长期定居在美国马萨诸塞州。具体有关情况通报如下：
黎某，女，自述2月26日至27日在美国参加公司会议，其中一同事后来被诊断为确诊病例。3月1日晚，黎某出现寒战，未就诊，之后又陆续出现发热，最高39℃，伴咳嗽、流涕等呼吸道症状以及恶心、腹泻、肌肉酸痛、全身乏力等症状。3月3日首次就诊于当地医院,给以奥司他韦治疗，3月5日、3月10日就诊于同一医院，胸片显示均无异常。3月11日再次就诊同一医院，胸片显示肺炎影像，当地医院评估其症状后未收治入院，在美国3次申请核酸检测均被拒绝。为进一步诊治，黎某及其丈夫、儿子一家三口于美国当地时间3月12日1：00从洛杉矶机场乘国航CA988次航班，于北京时间3月13日5：00到达北京首都机场。
入境填写的健康申明卡显示：黎某有发热、乏力、干咳等症状，黎某丈夫有乏力症状，儿子无症状。经向乘务员孙某核实，黎某在飞机上落座1小时后自述低血糖，乘务员将其安排在最后一排隔离区，与前方乘客有帘子阻隔，之后黎某未返回原座位。抵京时，海关对3人排查后，由120急救车转运至定点医院。3月13日，黎某被诊断为确诊病例，黎某丈夫及儿子诊断为疑似病例。
Source: Beijing News, March 14, 2020
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2020/03/14/703839.html
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
3月15日下午，北京市新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情防控工作新闻发布上，国航产品服务部总经理、国航海外疫情防控组成员张允介绍了该次航班有关空中防控情况。
3月12日，CA988次航班在洛杉矶旅客登机阶段，乘务员对所有旅客逐一进行了一个测温的排查，没有发现体温超标的旅客。
航班起飞一小时之后，座位在40b的旅客找到了乘务员自述，感到憋气、乏力、脸部微麻，说自己没有同行者，登机前也未服用任何药品，但自己一周前有短暂的发烧史。
乘务组为其测温是36.4℃，并调整了座位，将其安排到了客舱右后部，留观隔离区。并按要求实施隔离处置程序，要求其全程佩戴口罩，指定了右后门的一个卫生间，为其单独使用。后续乘务组为这位旅客测温了4次，均在37℃以下。
航班落地前两小时，也就北京时间3月13日凌晨4时左右，40b旅客找到乘务员，陈述自己在美国任职公司有人感染，自己在美国已经发烧，并在登机前吃了退烧药，同时她说丈夫和孩子是和她同机，座位号是54k和54l。
乘务组立即将此情况报告机长，同时将其丈夫和孩子一同安排在了隔离区。经乘务组再次测温，一家人体温均正常，同时机组也把这个情况报告给了国航的运控中心。
Source: The Paper, March 15, 2020
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_6532192
3. Excerpt in Chinese:
消息传到美国，知情者很快爆出真相。据认识黎某的人透露，黎某在美国已经检查确诊，但属于轻症，达不到入院标准，想跑回国住院治疗，回来以后为了能顺利收治谎说自己在美国没确诊。
消息还称，黎某就是Biogen公司的员工。
麻省卫生官员称，截至3月14日下午，该州共计确诊138例病例，其中有104例都与生物技术公司Biogen在2月底的会议有关。
上述官方通报的这起境外输入确诊病例存在诸多疑点而引发网民关注和热议。
有华人称：“想一想，她这一路要害多少人？她家去波士顿的路上，在波士顿机场等飞机，波士顿飞往洛杉矶的美国航班，洛杉矶机场转国航，长途飞行的国航班机！”
Source: Epoch Times, March 15, 2020
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/3/15/n11942723.htm