Wuhan has shut down one of its central districts after covid cases were discovered, while China persists in a zero-tolerance system for the virus nearly three years since the pathogen emerged in the city.
The roughly 900,000 citizens of Hanyang County were ordered to stay home starting Wednesday, a CDC spokeswoman for the domain told Bloomberg News by phone. Another official from the Hanyang fitness bureau said the closure would last until Sunday and all non-essential businesses had been asked to close. Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain operational.
Photos posted on Chinese social media appeared to show barriers erected in Hanyang, to prevent other people from leaving as movement restrictions are imposed. The community is known for its former tourist attractions.
Wuhan recorded 18 covid cases online on Tuesday. While a minuscule count in other parts of the world, who have moved to live with the virus, is a significant number in China, where the government continues to control outbreaks.
The Covid Zero policy, which originated in the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, uses lockdowns, mass testing and restrictions to involve the spread of the virus. But the approach, which President Xi Jinping has championed to save lives, is causing social and economic disruption.
After getting rid of the virus in April 2020, Wuhan experienced a long era without cases in which life in the city that saw the world’s first Covid lockdown returned to normal. That fate ended in July this year, when the government shut down Jiangxia district, a domain that is home to nearly a million people on the outskirts of Wuhan.
Nationally, cases are trending upward again after hitting a plateau at last week’s party convention. 1230 new local infections were reported on Tuesday, up from 1068 the day before and in two weeks.
Blockades were implemented in Datong City in Shanxi Province, a key coal production base. The southern city of Guangzhou on Monday imposed Covid restrictions on a community in its center.
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