Street screenings to identify positive cases, rush to supermarkets to stock up on food: Beijing lives this Monday under the threat of confinement after a rare epidemic outbreak in the Chinese capital.
The fear of confinement
Residents fear a scenario à la Shanghai, where almost all of the 25 million inhabitants have been confined since the beginning of April, with often difficulties in accessing food and medical care outside of Covid.
A total of 51 new deaths were still announced there on Monday by the Ministry of Health – a record in the Chinese economic capital.
China has been facing an epidemic outbreak since March that affects almost the entire country to varying degrees.
She is trying to overcome it with her zero Covid-19 strategy.
This consists in particular of confinements as soon as a few cases appear and of massive tests to quickly identify infected people and isolate them.
Massive screenings
In Beijing on Monday, long lines, sometimes hundreds of residents, snaked between sidewalks and shopping malls before arriving at improvised screening tents, where officers in full protective suits carried out PCR tests.
These sites are located in the Chaoyang district, in the east of the capital.
With a population of around 3.5 million, the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is the most affected by this epidemic wave.
"If they find the slightest positive case, the whole area could be affected" and put in containment, says Yao Leiming, a 25-year-old office worker who is about to be tested.
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