Five million residers of a central Chinese megacity started home confinement Tuesday in a new lockdown to check the spread of the largely transmittable Omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to state media Beijing is on high alert for new outbreaks as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics coming month, sticking to a”zero-Covid” strategy of targeted lockdowns, border restrictions and lengthy insulations.
While those measures have kept the number of new cases far lower than contagion hotspots in the United States and Europe, Beijing is presently battling original flare-ups in multiple metropolises The fast- spreading Omicron strain presents a fresh challenge, with two cases in Anyang– the recently locked down megacity in Henan fiefdom– linked to a growing infection cluster in the northern megalopolis of Tianjin, some 400 kilometres (250 country miles) down.
Authorities in Anyang blazoned the lockdown late Monday, issuing a notice ordering residers not to leave their homes or drive buses on the roads, state news agency Xinhua reported. All unnecessary businesses have been closed and a mass-testing drive has been launched”to respond to the severe epidemic control situation and rigorously help the spread of the Omicron contagion outbreak”, Xinhua reported There were 58 new original infections reported in Anyang, state broadcaster CCTV said Tuesday, bringing the megacity’s total caseload to 84 since Saturday.
It wasn’t incontinently clear whether the new cases were tied to the Omicron variant ALSO READ Covid across the world China begins mass testing in Tianjin, UK’s crusade for dabs for pregnant women The megacity had formerly confined outbound trip, which original officers said was to” insure that the outbreak doesn’t unmask over into outside areas”.
At least three metropolises in Henan are battling arising outbreaks, with parochial capital Zhengzhou closing seminaries and kindergartens, and stopping caffs from accepting dine-in guests Last week, one million people in the megacity of Yuzhou were put under stay-at- home orders Away, Tianjin– a major harborage megacity just 150 kilometres from Beijing– has barred people from leaving without sanctioned authorization, ordered the testing of all 14 million residers, and cancelled trains into the capital.
Tianjin is conterminous to Winter Olympics venues in Beijing and Hebei fiefdom and verified another 10 new locally transmitted cases after citywide mass testing The northern megacity ofXi’an is in its third week of lockdown as it attempts to stamp out a-case outbreak And after logging a sprinkle of cases in recent days, Shenzhen– a southern tech mecca just across the border from Hong Kong– has locked down some casing composites, launched a mass-testing action and shuttered some long- distance machine stations.
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