A district with almost a million inhabitants of the Chinese city of Wuhan (center) decreed a five-day confinement on Wednesday due to a resurgence of covid in its streets.
A decision that shows again how far China is from post-pandemic normality more than two and a half years after the city in which the pandemic was confined for the first time.
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Hanyang district confined its 900,000 permanent residents, asking them to stay in their homes and not to go out unless strictly necessary.
The measures include the control of roads and the closure of access to the district as well as to the communities for five days, after fifteen asymptomatic cases were confirmed in the district on Tuesday.
In turn, the inhabitants of the district must carry out PCR tests on each of the days that the confinement lasts. The city of eleven million inhabitants looks askance at these events, concerned about recent history, despite the fact that until now the restrictions are limited to that district.
The inhabitants of the district must carry out PCR tests on each of the days that the confinement lasts
Other populations of the Asian giant are in a similar situation without necessarily having been officially decreed a confinement.
Neighborhoods of provincial capitals such as Xining (center) or Zhengzhou (center), are confined, according to testimonies on social networks collected by Efe.
China clinging to a strict ‘zero covid’ policy who rules out living with the virus, has been dealing with outbreaks of the omicron variant for more than five months, with the most serious case illustrated by the confinement of the Shanghai megalopolis (26 million inhabitants) for more than two months.
The strategy consists of strict border controls, the isolation of all those infected and their close contacts, and restrictions on mobility and PCR test campaigns wherever a case is detected.
In large cities, the practice of “standardized PCR tests” has been established, according to which inhabitants must present negative tests carried out in the previous 24, 48 or 72 hours to access public places.
In addition to incalculable economic losses, these harsh measures have caused visible signs of irritation and discontent in the population, which until now had mostly supported this government policy.
During the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (PCCh), held last week in Beijing, neither in Xi Jinping’s speech nor in the appearances of the different spokespersons has a change of strategy been hinted at.
The consulting firm Capital Economics already places its forecasts of a significant withdrawal of restrictions in 2024 due to the low vaccination rate among the elderly, vulnerable to the coronavirus.
According to the accounts of the country’s health institutions, since the start of the pandemic, 258,167 people have been infected in the country and 5,226 have died, although the total number of infected people excludes asymptomatic people.
EFE
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