HMM: Chinese hospitals to tighten security after violent attacks.

Beijing city authorities are requiring tighter security checks at hospitals starting July 1 in response to fatal attacks against hospital staff, according to Chinese state media.

China Daily and other news services report hospitals in the Chinese capital are to set up a system of security checks to protect physicians and nurses who have been the target of assaults by patients or their family members. . . .

A survey on Dingxiang Yuan, an online Chinese platform for health professionals, found that as many as 85 percent of doctors interviewed said they had experienced a violent incident at their workplace. Only 29 percent said their hospitals took sufficient measures.

Hospital workers have been cast as national heroes in China since the outbreak of COVID-19 that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Well, something doesn’t compute here.

UPDATE: A Hong Kong reader emails: “BTW there has also been a huge upsurge in attacks against police, bus drivers, taxi drivers, security guards, etc. it has gotten so bad that security barriers and warning signs are popping up all over.”