Residents of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai have called for a stay at home amid fears of a new virus.
Chinese authorities have told residents in two cities south of Beijing to stay at home for seven days as they try to stop the COVID-19 revolution in which more than 300 people tested positive in the country. last week.
Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province which surrounds Beijing, suspended service on the federal subway, then extended the ban to public transport, including taxis. The province went into “wartime mode” this week to fight the diseases.
At a media conference on Saturday, regional authorities said 16 million residents of both Shijiazhuang as well as nearby the nearby city of Xingtai underwent major tests for the virus.
Ma Yujun, deputy mayor of Shijiazhuang, said the city was working to find out where the uprising came from.
“We have not yet seen a clear turning point in this uprising,” said Shijiazhuang official Ma Yujun. “There is still a risk of expansion.”
Celebrating a new year
The bars come ahead of the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions cross China to visit family and friends. National Health Commission deputy minister Zeng Yixin warned on Saturday that the festival will “further boost the risk of transmission”.
Shijiazhuang and Xingtai are restricting people to their communities and villages and have banned rallies, according to notifications posted on social media.
Hebei reported an additional 14 confirmed cases in the most recent 24-hour period, bringing the majority in the follow-up up to 137. It has found a further 197 people with no symptoms. was positive. China does not include such asymptomatic cases in its confirmed account.
Beijing is asking Hebei workers to get proof of employment in Beijing and a negative COVID-19 test before entering the country’s capital. Chinese media reported an hour-long backlash at entry points on Friday.
In a separate uprising, three other cases have been reported in the northeastern Liaoning region, bringing the majority there to 84 since the first cases appeared about three weeks ago. There have been 31 cases in Beijing over the same period, although none have been raised in the last 24 hours.
Approximately 3,000 medical workers have been deployed to support the 11 million residents’ mass test in Shijiazhuang, and the entire province has gone into “ “War” to keep up the rebellion.
Anti-corruption authorities earlier announced that three local officials had been punished for failing to reel in the spread of the virus, after a state media report fined the provincial government for being unprepared and lack of transparency.
China announced on Saturday that vaccines against coronavirus will be free nationwide.
“Ordinary people will not need to spend a penny,” Zheng Zhongwei, an official from the National Health Commission, said at a news conference.
Authorities are racing to distribute vaccines with more than nine million doses given so far.
Health authorities recently gave unconditional approval to a vaccinated candidate with Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm, with an emergency use job already administered in late 2020.