Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are stepping up efforts to combat COVID-19, seal buildings, close neighborhoods and throw millions of people into misery in a race to prevent the spread of outbreaks.
On Thursday, China reported a third direct day of more than 1,000 new COVID cases nationwide, a modest count of the tens of thousands per day that sent Shanghai into a total lockdown earlier this year, enough to cause more restrictions and restrictions across the country. 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, on Thursday shut down more streets and neighborhoods and kept other people in their homes 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 confined to their homes,” said Lily Li, 28, a Guangzhou resident. Moving to 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 regions accounting for about 25. 6 trillion yuan ($3. 55 trillion) of China’s gross domestic product, according to Nomura.
That’s nearly a quarter of China’s GDP in 2021.
Mainland Chinese stocks fell on Thursday as outbreaks weighed on confidence, while gloomy knowledge about a COVID-hit business sector cast a fresh shadow over markets.
THE EVILS OF WUHAN
Wuhan, the first global outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, reported between 20 and 25 new infections per day this week, prompting the local government to order more than 800,000 people in a district to stay home until Sunday.
“I don’t know what to do. If we can still live like this, then 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. We feel numb through it all. 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 discovered the government said it was connected to the local chain of red meat sources.
In Xining, capital of Qinghai province, social media posts reported food shortages and inflation in the costs of goods 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 Wednesday.
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 closed Wednesday after at least one 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.
Good for them. Now they are locked in this madness, to gain advantage from the rest of the planet.
@Kaerimashita.
The Chinese are locked in madness, but I doubt that CCP members are limited at all. All went abroad during the lockdown and were vaccinated with Western vaccines.
Around the world, Chinese hackers are hacking Western fitness insurers around the world to collect data on the efficacy of Western vaccines because Chinese ones are a failure, as has been shown in Indonesia and where the CCP has passed its vaccines on to unsuspecting recipients.
In time he saves nine.