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China Officials Admit Fault for Boy's Death as Anger at Lockdown Mounts

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Chinese health officials released a statement on Thursday apologizing for the death of a 3-year-old boy whose father wasn't able to get him to a hospital during a COVID-19 lockdown. The boy's father wrote in a social media post on Wednesday that he had been unable to leave his housing compound in Lanzhou because of the country's strict coronavirus restrictions, according to the Agence France-Presse. He claimed that it took over an hour to break out of his housing compound and get his son, who had carbon monoxide poisoning, to a hospital via taxi. Local health officials apologized following the…

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