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BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s most populous district, Chaoyang, announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a “fierce” outbreak of COVID-19 that erupted at a bar in the shopping and nightlife district last week, some time after the city relaxed restrictions. imposed an outbreak in April.
City fitness officials said that to date, 166 cases have been shown related to the outbreak that began Thursday at the Heaven Supermarket bar in the Sanlitun area, adding 145 bar patrons.
Mass testing will reportedly take place between Monday and Wednesday in Chaoyang District, where the bar is located, he told a news conference.
The total number of cases and deaths due to the pandemic remains incredibly low in China for many countries around the world.
But even though much of the world has eased restrictions, the Chinese government maintains its ZERO COVID policy, seeking to eliminate outbreaks early with measures that add strong movement restrictions and mass testing.
Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the Beijing city government, said at Sunday’s briefing that the existing outbreak in the capital is “fierce. “
“At present, the threat of further spread still exists. The most pressing task at the moment is to hint at the source of the group and also control the threats,” he said, adding that Beijing will have to prevent the emergence of “epidemic amplifiers. “
Two buildings housing many citizens in a Chaoyang complex were put under strict closure on Sunday after a positive case of singles, a worker on the residential committee told Reuters.
Large steel barricades were installed around the enclosure. Personnel in combinations of dangerous fabrics using disinfectant entered the building and more security and police officers were taken to the exits.
Several nearby corporations, the “Paradise Massage”
A handful of consumers and workers at the exhibit would be locked up for at least two days while the checks were carried out, a government worker told Reuters.
Some Beijing citizens reported receiving several text messages on Sunday asking them to inform their community organizations if they had visited Sanlitun’s bars.
It’s been a week since state media reported that Beijing would further ease COVID restrictions by allowing meals inside.
MORE TESTS IN SHANGHAI
In Shanghai, which has been closed for two months until early June, the government on Saturday announced a series of tests for up to 25 million residents.
Shanghai told reporters they discovered one symptomatic case and 4 asymptomatic cases on Sunday afternoon, after locating 10 new local symptomatic cases and 19 local asymptomatic cases a day earlier.
Food will be allowed to resume at several restaurants and canteens in 3 suburban neighborhoods, Shanghai officials said.
China has reported 275 new coronaviruses by June 11, of which 134 were symptomatic and 141 asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday.
There were no new deaths, leaving the overall pandemic at 5,226. As of Saturday, mainland China had shown 224,781 cases with symptoms.
(Reporting via Ryan Woo and Martin Pollard in Beijing and David Kirton in ShenzhenMonted via William Mallard and Frances Kerry)