BEIJING: Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are doubling down on Covid-19 restrictions, sealing buildings, closing neighborhoods and throwing millions of people into misery in a stampede to prevent the spread of epidemics.
China reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 new covid cases nationwide, a modest tally of the tens of thousands per day that sent Shanghai into a total lockdown earlier this year, but enough to cause more restrictions across the country.
The number of coronavirus cases in China has remained low through standards, however, its ultra-strict and disruptive containment measures this year, opposed to the highly transmissible variant of Omicron, have weighed heavily on the world’s second-largest economy.
Guangzhou, China’s fourth-largest city in terms of economic output and the provincial capital of Guangdong, sealed off more streets and neighborhoods and kept other people at home, as the new spaces were deemed high-risk in a Covid resurgence that persisted into its fourth week.
“Many of my friends and colleagues have been cooped up at home,” said Lily Li, 28, a Guangzhou resident.
“The scenario remains unstable. Many squares are blocked. Classes have ceased and entertainment venues have also been suspended. The gym where I pass has also been closed.
As of Oct. 24, 28 cities were implementing varying degrees of lockdown measures, with about 207. 7 million people affected in the regions blamed for about 25. 6 trillion yuan of China’s gross domestic product, according to Nomura.
This is equivalent to almost a quarter of China’s economic output in 2021.
Mainland China declined as outbreaks and gloomy data about a Covid-battered economy damaged confidence.
Wuhan’s problems
Wuhan, the world’s first covid-19 outbreak in late 2019, reported around 20 to 25 new infections per day this week, prompting the local government to order more than 800,000 people in one district to stay home until Sunday.
“I don’t know what to do. If we can still live like this, I guess that’s what we’ll do,” said a Wuhan resident surnamed Chang, 38.
“When we see those reports about Covid, we feel a little numb now. We feel numb from all this. We feel more and more numb.
Wuhan also suspended the sale of red meat in parts of the city, according to photographs and social media posts, after a Covid case was discovered that the government said was connected to the local chain of red meat sources.
In Qinghi, capital of Qinghai province, social media posts reported on food shortages and emerging costs of essentials, as the health government in the city of 2. 5 million rushed to involve a Covid uptick after the National Day holiday week in early October.
“In the face of the threat of transmission, some large fruit and vegetable warehouses have been closed and quarantined,” a Xining government official said yesterday.
Other major cities in China, in addition to Zhengzhou, Datong and Xian, put new brakes on this week to curb local outbreaks.
In Beijing, Universal Resort theme park was closed after a guest tested positive for coronavirus.
China has continuously vowed to stick to its zero-tolerance reaction to Covid-19 and put in place mandatory government measures to engage the virus.
“Once there’s a case somewhere, and you’re a close contact, you have to be quarantined,” said Wen Bihan, 26, a Beijing resident who had already been isolated twice in quarantine facilities.
“It’s annoying. “
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