The Chinese government has stepped up COVID-19 lockdowns and other curbs to prevent the spread of clusters, as the number of cases in China has reached its highest point since this year’s Shanghai lockdown, with Beijing and Zhengzhou recording record cases.
China on Friday reported 10,535 new locally transmitted cases by Nov. 10, the highest since April 29, when the country’s publicity center, Shanghai, battled its worst outbreak.
The national increase, still small by global standards and for a country of 1. 4 billion people, has prompted the most sensible Chinese leaders to reaffirm their zero-tolerance strategy for the virus, a policy that President Xi Jinping says is aimed at saving lives, especially among China’s elderly.
The southern city of Guangzhou, the current epicenter of China’s COVID fight, reported 2,824 new local cases on Nov. 10, the fourth day infections topped 2,000.
Infections were cases in the populous district of Haizhu, which on Friday declared a strict lockdown until Sunday after days of increasing restrictions and restrictions.
“All citizens are required to stay at home,” the district government said in a statement. “Only one user in the family can purchase essential basic items on a staggered schedule. “
All public mailings in the 1. 8 million person district are also suspended and mandatory PCR tests will be administered to “each and every family and each and every person,” according to the statement.
China will not back down on its COVID measures, but will continue with them depending on the evolution of the epidemic situation and the mutation of the virus, a government expert quoted by the national health authority said on Friday.
Other major cities such as Beijing, Zhengzhou and Chongqing tightened measures this week as cases returned to record levels.
Zhengzhou, the capital of central Henan province, reported 2,988 new cases, more than double the previous day, in a growing outbreak that has plunged Apple Foxconn’s iPhone meeting plant into chaos in recent weeks.
In the southwestern city of Chongqing, cases remained in triple digits throughout the week, with a new record of 783 infections on Nov. 10.
On Friday, some districts in Chongqing banned dining in restaurants and suspended offline categories in schools. Some metro stations were also closed.
Beijing reported 118 new local instances by Nov. 10, a still low record compared to other Chinese cities.
However, many parts of the city of about 22 million people have begun urging citizens to undergo PCR tests every day or be barred from accessing public spaces, adding work buildings, recreational venues and gyms.
Organizers said this week that the Beijing Auto Show, a high-profile occasion attracting global brands, will take a stand this year.
Aher evidence that a 0 covid policy does work.
Endless cycle of instances, crashes, transience to be replaced by instances again, crashes again, etc.
Meanwhile, other countries have achieved much less difficult and more sustainable outcomes through vaccination and effective treatments, meaning that sporadic cases are no longer a burden on gyms and other people are protected without having to sacrifice their human rights, livelihoods, etc. Because they can already save you complications, hospitalizations and deaths.
Again, the 0 covid policy provides a very effective excuse to have the population under strict control under the pretext that we want to protect the population, persecuting it from this point of view (and not from the point of view of public fitness). It is perfectly logical that it should be used.
“All citizens are obliged to be at home”
“Only one user in the family can buy essential essentials on a staggered schedule. “
Jesus christ!
What madness!
China looks like a kind of hell.
Aher evidence that a 0 covid policy does work.
Not all bad, because there are still some cases, but at least it works much better than most other policies, all of which have as a common characteristic that they spread more viruses and allow them to multiply and recombine into new, unknown and potentially worse ones. variants. Or in short, only a NoCovid strategy particularly affects viruses.
China has a bigger serious aging challenge than Japan, and other seniors are more vulnerable to covid.
Not bad, because there are still cases, but at least it works much better than the maximum of other sources.
Only if by “better” you mean using many more resources, wasting human rights, employing more deaths through measures, or exposing others to the threat of infection.
All of which have in common that viruses spread more and allow them to multiply and recombine into new, unknown and potentially worse variants.
This is false, the threat of new variants is greater for progressive infection in non-immune populations, as this leads to longer infection times that allow for a greater variety of escape mutants. If a population is immune to some extent, infection is an underlying threat. , then the threat of this generating new variants is also diminished.
Meanwhile, China is still struggling to immunize its population well, so any spread of the infection is more likely to produce new variants, which will then spread as outbreaks remain frequent.
The only way a 0 covid policy can save you from this threat is if it were so effective that no new outbreaks occur, but that’s unrealistic as Omicron has become widespread.
The existing covid craze in China is what many other people have been calling for here in Japan and in the West. Thank God we didn’t go down that road.
At the same time, they are announcing a possible easing of quarantines, which will cause an increase in markets. These other people are nutty or very, very cunning.
Older people are more vulnerable to Covid.
Yes, you are right. If there is only one thing that can particularly decrease that risk. I hope they make a medicine or anything that can help humanity move forward. Fantasy, I know, but we can dream, right?
But at least, with the number of instances emerging again, turns out that the 0 covid policy is working?
Open China please! I have to wait weeks or even months to get spare portions for just about everything. Herd immunity is best.
Aher evidence that a 0 covid policy does work.
Exactly. Viruses will be viruses.
Everyone knows that masks are very effective in preventing the spread of the virus, so it is evident that the Chinese do not wear them. Well, they better start.
Oh, wait. . .
Sorry I forgot. China is one of the countries with the maximum masking in the world right now, along with our beloved Japan.
These are two of the few masked countries left, in fact. Most countries have abandoned them.
Unfortunately, compliance with Chinese masks does not help you draw conclusions or inferences from paints for the undeniable reason why they are classified as KN95 compliant, none of them have been tested to verify that they are manufactured to specifications.
Open China please! I have to wait weeks or even months to get spare portions for just about everything. Herd immunity is best.
Find suppliers outside of China and move on. I know that’s less hard said than done, but in the end it’s the long-term solution.
At the same time, they announce a possible relaxation of quarantines,
The CCP can simply change its brain about this and return to longer quarantines in the blink of an eye.
Since the Shanghai leader ascended, everyone in the country sees that following this policy is a way to be promoted, so they will do the same.
Xi is crazy, he has allowed this virus to spread around the world, hoping to cause devastation in everything he considers his enemy. He knows that any attempt at inoculation will result in a long-term weakening of people’s viral protection, leading to the death of undeniable things like the not unusual cold, so he is pleased that Global Pharmaceuticals continues to advertise its products. As for his own people, he hates them and only wishes to burden them in all submission, as an act of revenge for what happened to his own circle of relatives. China has been ruled politically through the circle of factional relatives, and this is a war we see between them to gain overall power, before we leave China to conquer the world.
How many times has Xi been locked in a two-hundred-m² apartment for 6 weeks?
It is right that he happens to be a leader of the Chinese people.
We have a saying. ” The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting other results. “Crazy.