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Xi'an, the city of the 7,000 terracotta warriors with their horses, has just entered 'On Mode' under China's Covid Zero strategy: if a new outbreak takes shape and threatens to spread, it
is eliminated by cutting as It was made almost two years ago
in the then unknown city of Wuhan.
Now it is the turn of Xian, in the north, which has joined the list of large cities that have been confined for adding a number of new infections that in most European countries would be good news.
Since November 9, the total of positives has risen to 143
.
This Wednesday 52 new cases were reported.
Enough to order the
13 million residents of Xian to stay at home
until further notice.
The guidelines to be followed are the same that have been repeated in many other cities over the past two years.
Starting at midnight Thursday, all households can only
"send one household member abroad once every two days to purchase essential items,"
and all others are ordered to stay indoors, except in cases emergency, the city government said in a statement on its official Weibo account, the Chinese Twitter.
"Residents should not leave the city unless necessary.
Those who wish to leave would have to provide evidence of special circumstances and request approval,"
the brief said.
Long-distance bus stations were closed and the authorities set up checkpoints on the roads leading out of the city.
More than 85% of flights to and from the city's main airport have been suspended.
Schools have been closed, all "non-essential" public facilities,
and mass testing of residents has already begun.
Everyone will go through at least one PCR test.
Since the first large coronavirus outbreaks began to be reported in the city of Wuhan in January 2020, China has reported 100,544 cases and 4,636 deaths.
Currently, there are 1,765 active infected.
Its vaccination data indicates that 76.3% of its vast population of more than 1.4 billion people already have the full schedule.
Those are the official figures in a country that has not renounced its Covid zero strategy for 23 months, which is summarized in the
willingness to confine cities with millions of inhabitants by a handful of positives
that are counted on the fingers of the hand.
Ask those living in the southern city of Dongxing, which on Tuesday also ordered its 200,000 residents to isolate themselves at home after a single positive case was detected.
Wu Zunyou
, chief epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated in recent statements that if China had adopted a more flexible approach in the fight against the pandemic, it
would have had more than three million deaths and 260 million cases.
Covid
positives
. With the arrival of the new omicron variant, which was detected the first case last week in the city of Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing - three weeks ago, Hong Kong reported three positives with this variant - Wu said the zero tolerance policy it goes for long.
"The strict quarantine upon entry to China and the zero tolerance policy
should remain in force until at least the spring,"
the expert opined.
Although in Beijing they speak of extending it even until last autumn, after a momentous congress to be held by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
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