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BEIJING (Reuters) – Officials in the country’s Chinese cities and provinces are making no effort to eliminate sporadic outbreaks of COVID-19 as winter approaches, temporarily closing sites and enforcing longer transitional lockdowns on millions of people.
Cases in mainland China reached 2,898 on Sunday, surpassing 2,000 for a moment directly into the day and testing the country’s questionable zero-COVID policy, which crippled the economy and angered its citizens.
In Guangdong province, the Guangzhou production center noticed a series of cases over the past week that closed some districts. Haizhu’s 1. 8 million inhabitants, or about 10 million of Guangzhou’s population, were hardest hit.
The total number of cases in Guangzhou rose to 1,110 from Oct. 24 to Oct. 30, down from 402 in the past seven days. The risk of a primary lockdown would shake the city and recall the two-month nightmarish closure Shanghai experienced a few months ago.
On Monday, Shanghai Disney Resort said it had closed the entire hotel since Oct. 31 due to COVID prevention measures in the city.
Over the past week, the government has rushed to involve emerging cases in Datong, Xining, Nanjing, Xian, Zhengzhou and Wuhan, forcing transient lockdown measures in some neighborhoods.
Lu Dongliang, secretary of the Datong municipal committee, attended the congress last week to see the “terrible scenario in the city” of more than a million people.
Datong, which recorded 288 cases from Oct. 27 to 30, has imposed stricter isolation and control of hotels, key industries and its railway. Some city officials have been punished for lax enforcement of COVID rules, according to local media.
As winter approaches, northern cities, especially those near foreign borders, experience increased numbers of cases and possibly face new bottlenecks.
Mudanjiang, in Heilongjiang province on the border with North Korea, has prolonged the temporary blockade of some areas, according to local media. Dandong, Suihua, Ruili, cities near the borders of North Korea, Russia and Myanmar respectively, are experiencing epidemics that have been corrected to and “some” districts, 11 closed in paragraph 3. It also corrects a typo in Haizhu in paragraph 3 and corrects a typo in Suihua in the last paragraph)
(Reporting via Beijing newsroon; Written through Bernard Orr; Editing via Lincoln Feast)