Covid in China: the return of masks and the "health pass" in megalopolises
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The mandatory mask is back in China as in Beijing on July 27, 2021, while a few cases have been reported in the country.
AP - Mark Schiefelbein
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Summer is also marked by the Delta variant in China.
18 new cases have been reported by health authorities in the eastern province of Jiangsu, where the regional capital Nanjing has 184 confirmed cases.
Tourist sites have been closed and the return of the mask and the "sanitary pass" in Chinese megalopolises.
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With our correspondent in Beijing,
Stéphane Lagarde
Wear your masks!
"
Thank you for wearing your masks,
" recalls this "
Baoan
", a security officer at the entrance of a shopping center in the university district in Beijing.
Since two cases were confirmed in the north of the Chinese capital, the residence committees immediately brought out the arsenal of control and tracing.
Infrared thermometers, verification of the health QR code on smartphones….
“
I don't know when the restrictions will be relaxed.
We have to follow orders
, explains the person in charge of security.
We were asked to resume checks on Thursday
[July 29]
.
A restaurant not far from here had to close.
A contact case would have passed there.
All clients are in quarantine.
"
Large-scale quarantines, state-owned companies asking their staff not to leave the capital, Beijing had not seen such restrictions in months. The two positive cases are a couple who
returned from Zhangjiajie
, a tourist hotspot in Hunan province in central China, where this Friday, July 30, residences, cinemas and other entertainment venues are closed. The same goes for the Terracotta Army Museum in Xi'an, again a tourist spot under close surveillance of white suits ...
“Among the 180 infected, what percentage of people received the two doses of vaccine?
Asked this journalist from the People's Daily.
Nanjing city officials do not know how to respond to him.
We are "studying ...".
# COVID19 pic.twitter.com/NcXt9c4mGB
- Zhulin Zhang (@ZhangZhulin) July 30, 2021
But it is in Nanjing that the situation is most tense.
More than 180 cases reported since July 20.
This Friday, experts explained that the transmission of the virus in a China with ultra-filtered inputs, had occurred during the cleaning of a Russian plane.
For the city's health authorities, this would be
the most widespread contagion
since Wuhan.
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