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Published 6:14, October 28, 2022 TSB | Last updated 06:14, 28 October 2022 BST
More than 800,000 people in Wuhan’s Covid-19 Zero City were quarantined nearly three years after the virus began spreading.
Cities across China are now strictly locked, from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest of the Asian superpower.
The move changed millions of lives as the country recorded its third consecutive day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases nationwide, Reuters reports.
While this could be a modest number compared to the tens of thousands of infections on the day it sent Shanghai to a full lockdown in early 2022, it’s still enough to put the Chinese government on high alert.
Wuhan has now suspended the sale of red meat after reports indicated the virus spread through the meat’s chain of origin.
According to The Guardian, the city has reported between 20 and 25 new infections per day this week.
In addition, Wuhan has recorded 240 cases in the past 14 days, prompting the government to order many thousands more people in a city district to stay home until Oct. 30.
A Wuhan resident named Chang, 38, told Reuters citizens breathlessly.
“I don’t know what to do. If we can still live like this, I guess that’s what we’re going to do,” he said.
“When we see those reports about Covid-19, we feel a little numb now. We feel numb from all this.
He added: “We are getting numb and more numb. “
China’s fourth-largest city in terms of economic output, Guangzhou, has also cordoned off neighborhoods as the virus spreads there.
The city’s new spaces are infectious sites as the virus looms for a fourth week in a row.
Lily Li, 28, a resident of Guangzhou, told Reuters that most of the city’s citizens “have been locked in their homes. “
“It’s still unstable. Many put options are blocked,” he told Reuters.
Meanwhile, it is worse in Xining City.
The Guardian reported on food shortages and rising parts costs as the city struggles to involve its own outbreak.
The city’s fitness government is lately in a race against time to prevent the virus from spreading to Xining’s wider population of 2. 5 million.
According to The Guardian, Xining government officials showed that some retail grocery outlets in the city had been quarantined “because of the threat of transmission. “
All this is very reminiscent of the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. So if someone had a “time to 2020” on their 2022 bingo card, be sure to cross it out.
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