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Wuhan has shut down one of its central districts after the discovery of covid cases, while China persists with a zero-tolerance system to the virus nearly three years ago since the pathogen first appeared 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.
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Photos posted on Chinese social media appeared to show barriers erected in the neighborhood, to prevent other people from leaving as movement restrictions are imposed.
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. This technique is causing widespread social and economic disruption in China.
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.
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