Chinese Singer Jane Zhāng Faces Criticism for Infecting Herself Deliberately

Right now, people all over the world are trembling due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and BF.7 variant of Omicron. Amid this, China is facing a chaotic situation everywhere. From hospitals to crematoriums, every place is overcrowded with millions of people. In between this, a famous Chinese pop singer from Beijing Jane Zhāng Liàngyǐng made a public outcry that she deliberately infected herself with the virus to avoid her New Year’s evening concert. She further declared that she wanted to avoid the risk of getting affected, so she took this decision. According to ‘South China Morning Post’ she had visited ‘Sheeps’-(a term that is used for virus carriers in Mainland China).

Zhāng wrote on Friday on a social media platform for her 43 million followers,” I’ve been prepared for being ‘infected. I began to catch a fever, my whole body began to ache… before I finally fell asleep. After sleeping for a day and a night, all my symptoms disappeared. I just drank a lot of water and took vitamin C, without taking any medicine before I got well.” When she posted these details on Weibo, her fans were overwhelmed with anger and started criticizing her. In response, she replied last Friday, “I am not sure if it’s appropriate to ask, but does my case with symptoms lasting for only one day count as a positive case?”

38 years old Zhāng Liàngyǐng is popular among her fans as Jane Zhāng. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1984 on October 11th. Zhāng was deeply influenced by the writings of Jane Austen and to pay homage to ‘Jane Eyre’, she added the name ‘Jane’ in front of her own. In 2006 on January 9^th her first debut EP ‘Jane, Love’ was released which has sold more than 5000000 copies all over China. She is a technology and social media enthusiast. Jane attended the 67^th Cannes Film Festival in France and also sang the theme song of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games which was “Light Up The Future”. As a versatile artist, she appeared in different sectors such as Philanthropy and Political appearances.

Ever since her post on social media went viral, her fans strictly criticized her for this irresponsible behaviour, especially when the world is under threat. After facing a bunch of criticizing comments on Douyin which is China’s TikTok, such as, “As a public figure, how could she say this? She is encouraging people to get infected, which is not OK,”. She was forced to take down the post along with her explanation. She finally wrote, “I didn’t consider things carefully before making my previous posts. I apologize to the public.”

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