Covid-19 in China: Lanzhou confined, Beijing in a health bubble
China is trying to eradicate an upsurge in the Covid-19 epidemic ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Noel Celis AFP
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A megalopolis of four million inhabitants once again confined to China.
The decision of the authorities in Lanzhou in the northwest of the country, follows the appearance of 100 new cases of contamination in a dozen provinces last week.
Restrictions also in the Chinese capital, where entries are strictly screened 100 days before the start of the Winter Olympics.
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From our correspondent in Beijing
,
Stéphane Lagarde
No case of Covid-19 has been reported in this district of Beijing's third ring road, but since this morning the speakers of the Hepingli community have been singing a very “2020” refrain: “
Hello everyone!
We are facing a new outbreak of Covid ... Wash your hands regularly.
Remember to air out your home and to report to the residence office if you have recently traveled.
Let us fight together to achieve victory over viral pneumonia
.
"
Big data
and door-to-door
Exits and especially returns to the capital are strictly filtered, indicates this trader: “
There is no ban on leaving Beijing, but the authorities advise against going out.
Simply passing certain areas by train can give you problems.
At a minimum, you will have to do a PCR test when you get back!
"
From now on, it is Covid-19 screening and even compulsory quarantine if you return from regions affected by one of the 197 cases of infections reported since mid-October, mostly linked to
clusters
discovered among 13 tourist groups.
If
big data is
n't enough, we'll go door-to-door, the propaganda bureau said over the weekend.
This gentleman from the Beijing propaganda office announced a new strong measure to fight against the spread of # Covid19 in Beijing: go door to door to control people who entered the Chinese capital.
pic.twitter.com/zPlPZ8hiBt
- Zhulin Zhang (@ZhangZhulin) October 25, 2021
“
Since October 17, we have recorded several local epidemics scattered in China, said Sunday the spokesperson for the National Health Commission.
They are growing rapidly and there is a risk that the epidemic will spread.
"
"
My company asked us to stay at home by teleworking,
" an employee of a state-owned company in one of the three districts of the capital where residents tested positive told RFI by telephone.
Sanitary bubble in the sanitary bubble
Beijing has tightened controls in the run-up to the Winter Olympics.
All air and rail lines serving the capital are subject to a double check of sanitary passes, with reinforced filtering zones and in this case quays isolated by metal fences in the middle of stations or checkpoints before boarding. at airports.
The “zero Covid” strategy has so far made it possible to contain epidemic resurgences in China.
The authorities intend to stick to it at least until the Olympics, even if it means relaunching confinements.
As of Monday, the 32,000 residents of the small town of Ejin Banner in the Gobi Desert and the four million residents of Lanzhou can no longer leave their homes without permission.
An air of deja vu for the capital of Gansu and many Chinese megalopolises, now accustomed to these punchy measures against the local resurgences of viral pneumonia.
In Lanzhou, state
media
specify
, visitors and especially delivery people are confined outside residences.
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