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Bloomberg: Haze Fan, who is working as a journalist in Beijing, is still detained by the Chinese authorities for a year

Source: Stand News #Dec07

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Bloomberg: Haze Fan, who is working as a journalist in Beijing, is still detained by the Chinese authorities for a year

A journalist who works in the Office of Bloomberg in Beijing, Haze Fan, has been detained for a year by Chinese authorities. John Micklethwait, the Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, issued a short statement regarding Haze Fan's 12 months of detention, raising concerns of people within the company about her health status.

The statement also indicated that the company would continuously try their best to assist Haze Fan and her family. News editorial staff missed Haze so much, no matter whether as a colleague or friend.

Haze Fan is a Chinese citizen and has worked for many foreign media such as CNBC, CBS, Al Jazeera and Reuters. She has worked at Bloomberg since 2017. On 7th December 2020, after the last time of contacting the editor at 11:30 am, Haze was taken away from the apartment by plainclothes law enforcement officers. Bloomberg has been seeking Haze’s whereabouts from the Chinese government and the Chinese Embassy in the United States.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China confirmed that Haze Fan was detained by Beijing Municipal National Security Bureau, suspecting that she was involved in criminal activities that endangered national security.

Source: Stand News #Dec07

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China allows home quarantine in big shift from zero-COVID

China on Wednesday announced a rollback of its zero-COVID policy in a marked shift away from virus curbs that triggered nationwide unrest, putting it on course to living with the respiratory illness.

People who are asymptomatic, or who have mild infections, will now be allowed to quarantine at home, rather than being forced into government facilities, while mass PCR testing, a key feature of government efforts to quash even small outbreaks, will be largely abandoned.

Source:Nikkei Asia #Dec07

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-allows-home-quarantine-in-big-shift-from-zero-COVID?del_type=1&pub_date=20221207190000&seq_num=5


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