Reports of the death of a 16-year-old girl in a COVID-19 quarantine center after her family’s pleas for help went ignored have been spreading on Chinese social media since Oct. 18—during the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th Party Congress—and have sparked public outrage.
The girl’s father is believed to have been silenced by authorities after he spoke publicly about her death.
In a video that went viral, the father was seen filming a girl who had died in a hospital bed. He revealed his national ID and cellphone numbers, saying his name is Guo Lele and that he lives in Qizhuang Village, Ruzhou City in Henan Province. He said that after his daughter, Guo Jingjing, was placed in a COVID-19 isolation center at Wanji High School on Oct. 14, she developed a high fever on Oct. 16, and a day later, she was convulsing, dehydrated, and trembling in a bunk bed.
Medical staff at the isolation center ignored the family’s plea for medical help, the man said. They called emergency line 110 and ambulance line 120 many times, but they also ignored the family’s plea. The delay led to his daughter’s condition worsening, according to Guo.
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 17, his daughter was transferred to the Fourth People’s Hospital of the County for emergency treatment and was pronounced dead. Guo now is requesting that the regime’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection investigate allegations that the Ruzhou government improperly implemented epidemic control measures, demanding justice for his daughter.
The girl’s aunt said in the video that all six members of the family have been forced into a quarantine center for being close contacts.
When she went into isolation, she was fine, Guo said of his daughter.
“She had been there for four days and then suffered from convulsions, vomiting, and high fever,“ he said. ”Without timely treatment, the child is gone.”
Father is Silenced
After news of the incident went viral on social media, the Sound of Hope Radio Network spoke with Guo by telephone.“Our policy here [in China] is that as long as there is contact or close contact, all of them will be taken away,” he said. “At 2 a.m. on Oct. 14, our whole family was taken away to the quarantine point.”
Then, the call was cut off. The reporter called Guo again but hasn’t been able to get through. In line with the CCP’s usual tactics, it’s suspected that Guo’s phone was being monitored by the regime as the authorities try to stop him from speaking to the outside world.
‘Zero-COVID’ Policies Responsible
Dan Xia, a former lecturer at a university in mainland China, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 19 that quarantines should be about preventing infection and protecting people’s lives, but under the CCP, it’s not about protecting people’s lives but about being politically correct.“Didn’t we see this absurd scene?” she said. “It is said that to prevent the spread of the virus, factories are not allowed to open, but people are waiting in groups to do PCR testing. That is also gathering, so why allow it? It is because it is politically correct to gather together to do a PCR test, but it is not politically correct for workers to gather to work together.
“This poor girl from Ruzhou, Henan, died from the CCP’s politically correct epidemic prevention policy. The current CCP officialdom only talks about politics, not common sense; the CCP officials only care about their positions; they don’t care about the people’s livelihood.”
Ms. Liu, a retired professor from a mainland Chinese college who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisal, told The Epoch Times that this was just another wrongful death to add to the abuse that has been China’s COVID-19 quarantines. The teenage girl was in critical condition with a high fever for three days, but numerous calls and online pleas for medical help were ignored.
“What is the purpose of paying taxes to the government?” Liu said. “Does the CCP still treat people as people? This evil zero-COVID policy is tantamount to murder! This girl was killed by the CCP. So far, the CCP’s total disregard for human life has reached an outrageous level. Can they totally ignore if people live or die when they are put in quarantine?”
She said that if one person is infected, the entire community will be pulled into centralized quarantine. Now, mainland Chinese regard quarantine as a gate of hell, and everyone is afraid of being quarantined.
“If everyone said no to the CCP, what would the result be?” Liu said. “But they all obey, and the outcome of obedience would be like the girl in Ruzhou.”
