Vice-premier Sun Chunlan, one of the most senior government officials to visit the center of the coronavirus outbreak, toured a residential community in Wuhan’s Qingshan district on Thursday. According to state media, Sun was inspecting the operations of the neighborhood committee, meant to make checks on residents each day and distribute necessities like medicine, food and fresh vegetables.
Videos posted online showed Sun and a delegation walking along the grounds while residents appeared to shout from their apartment windows, “fake, fake,” “it’s all fake,” as well as “we protest”. Some could be heard yelling, “formalism,” a term that has employed frequently recently to criticize ineffective measures taken by government representatives for the sake of appearances.
Since 18 February, all residential compounds in Wuhan have been put under lockdown , barring most residents from leaving their homes. Neighborhood committees have been charged with handling everything from arranging hospital visits and quarantines of residents, as well as residents ’supplies of food and daily temperature checks.
But many residents have complained to the Guardian and other media that the community workers have not provided needed assistance. Community workers have complained that they have been overwhelmed.
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