China Locks Down 23 Million People in 4 Northern Cities

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Jan 13, 2021 07:06 AM
China Locks Down 23 Million People in 3 Northern Cities

By Ma Danmeng and Denise Jia


...About 20,000 villagers in Zengcun were transported by bus to a quarantine location....

A few hundred new Covid-19 cases prompted three northern cities in China with a combined population of 23 million people to lock down.

Health authorities in Hebei province, which encircles China’s capital Beijing, said the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and the cities of Xingtai and Langfang have been locked down. Travel restrictions have been put in place for the remainder the province as neighboring regions have found infections coming from Hebei.

As of Tuesday, Hebei reported 326 confirmed cases plus 234 asymptomatic cases in the latest round of outbreak, local health authorities said. Most of the cases were found in a mass testing of 11 million people in Shijiazhuang. The city launched a second citywide round of testing....the rest behind a paywall https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01...101649982.html

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Please see:

China - COVID-19 coronavirus: Zengcun Town in Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, implements closed management and prohibits personnel from entering and leaving - Hebei province - January 4, 2021+ citizens to stay home for 7 days

China - Nangong city, Xingtai, in Hebei province split into 14 areas and 5 urban entrances to begin testing for COVID-19 coronavirus - January 3, 2021

China - Hebei Province has 8 medium-risk areas and 1 high-risk area due to COVID-19 coronavirus - January 8, 2021

China - Langfang student tests positive for COVID-19 coronavirus - Hebei province - January 7, 2021

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As China COVID-19 cases rise, millions more placed under lockdown

BEIJING (Reuters) - China posted its biggest daily jump in COVID cases in more than five months on Wednesday, stepping up containment measures that have seen four cities put under lockdown, as the world’s second biggest economy scrambles to head off a new wave of infections.

Most of the new cases were reported near the capital Beijing, but a province in far northeast China also saw a rise in infections, official data showed, amid a resurgence that has seen more than 28 million people placed under home quarantine.

While the Chinese city of Wuhan was the initial epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which first emerged there in late 2019, China had in recent months largely kept COVID-19 at bay.

On Wednesday, the National Health Commission reported a total of 115 new confirmed cases on the mainland, compared with 55 a day earlier, the highest daily increase since July 30.

It said 107 of the new cases were local infections. Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing, accounted for 90 of the cases, while northeastern Heilongjiang province reported 16 new cases.

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CONTAINMENT EFFORTS Hebei province has put three cities - Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang - into lockdown as part of the efforts to keep the virus from spreading further, while Beijing city authorities have stepped up screening and prevention measures to prevent another cluster from developing there.

China has administered more than 10 million vaccine doses, NHC official Wang Bin said on Wednesday, and has ramped up testing capacity to 12.55 million people per day, or ten times the level last March.

Heilongjiang province on Wednesday declared a COVID-19 emergency. The city of Suihua, which borders the provincial capital Harbin, put its 5.2 million people under lockdown.



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[sharon sanders]

Please see:

China - There are 84 medium and high risk COVID-19 coronavirus areas in the country - up from 21 areas on Dec. 28 - quadrupled in 2 weeks - January 12, 2021

China - Are "frozen" COVID-19 coronavirus imports from Argentina and Brazil with variant E484K responsible for new spread? Can China stop it this time? January 10, 2021

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Strictly prevent entering Beijing on foot and entering the village by brushing the face and measuring temperature. The Beijing News reporter visited the front line of rural epidemic prevention

2021-01-13 13:30 Reporter: Wu Tingting, Zhang Lu, Li Muyi, Wu Ning, Guo Wei Editor: Chen Si





A reporter from the Beijing News found that the rural areas under the jurisdiction of Daxing, Tongzhou and other districts all implement closed bayonet management, and each village retains only one entrance. An automatic temperature measurement system for face recognition was set up at the entrance of the village, and measures such as strict implementation of test codes and registration of outsiders were adopted. Daxing District has set up checkpoints at checkpoints on rural roads entering Beijing's peripheral defense lines to persuade commuters who do not comply with regulations to enter Beijing.

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https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/161051344315555.html