China confines Jiangxia district to Wuhan after Covid-19 cases found
The Covid is back in Wuhan, where the first cases were detected in December 2019. © REUTERS / Thomas Peter / File Photo
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China continues to live to the rhythm of confinements.
This time, it was in Wuhan that the authorities imposed strict restrictions.
Wuhan, the epicenter of the first hours of the pandemic.
On Thursday, two scientific studies had provided new evidence showing that the pandemic most likely started in a market in this same city (which sold live animals)
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The Covid is back in Wuhan, where the first cases were detected in December 2019. The megalopolis was the first city in the world to decree strict confinement to its 12 million inhabitants.
Today, after only four new asymptomatic cases were discovered, authorities ordered nearly a million residents of the Jiangxia district to stay locked up at home for three days.
Shops, restaurants and tourist sites are closed, public transport partly stopped.
Non-residents are asked not to enter the containment area.
In Shenzhen, the capital of Chinese technology in the south of the country, the authorities say they now control the circulation of the Omicron variant.
But because of three new asymptomatic cases, most restrictions remain in place.
China (which still does not have messenger RNA vaccines), applies, at all costs, its “zero Covid” strategy.
Despite a sluggish economy and growing anger in the population.
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