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BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Several East-West Chinese cities hit by COVID-19 imposed new restrictions and closures on their populations on Thursday to involve outbreaks that threaten to disrupt local economies.
Reducing the unnecessary movement of other people for a few days, a milder type of lockdown, as soon as dozens of new cases appear is a key practice in China’s “dynamic COVID-zero” strategy. The goal is to turn efforts to prevent an outbreak into prolonged nightmares noticed in Shanghai and Wuhan.
Uncertainty about the duration of those smaller lockdowns, as Omicron’s maximum transmissibility makes infections difficult, has damaged business confidence and made other people less willing to travel.
The East Yiwu Export and Manufacturing Cinput said on Thursday it would enter 3 days of “silent management”, with most of its citizens barred from leaving designated spaces and some confined to their homes.
Yiwu’s 1. 9 million citizens have joined millions more in several cities that are largely limited to their residential complexes, unless they are forced out by issues such as COVID testing, grocery shopping, or hospital visits.
Businesses whose painters can paint on closed campuses can still operate, while all public places in Yiwu were required to close for the 3 days, for hospitals and other places that provide essential services.
In china’s western Region of Xinjiang, three cities in the Aksu region on Thursday allowed painters to leave their homes to go painting while restricting everyone else to the one trip. It is unclear when the measures will be lifted.
The main districts of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, were blocked for five days on Wednesday.
Groups at tourist hotspots in Hainan and Tibet continued to grow, and affected cities were blocked.
Mainland China reported on Aug. 10, 1993, new cases of transmitted coronavirus, 614 symptomatic and 1379 asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said Thursday.
There were no new deaths, keeping the number of deaths at 5,226. China has shown 232,809 cases with symptoms as of August 10, adding those transmitted and those arrived.
The Chinese capital Beijing reported two local cases the day before, while the Shanghai Financial Center and the Shenzhen Southern Technology Center reported no new local infections. (Roxanne Liu, Albee Zhang, and Ryan Woo report from Beijing; Edited by Tom Hogue)