China is struggling with a new wave of Covid19. Not only in Shanghai, which is still in lockdown as people’s anger over the food shortages grows, but also in Guangzhou: In the capital Guangdong, schools are closed from today to stop the spread of the virus.
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China is officially struggling with one new wave the Covid19 pandemic. After Shanghai, which has been in lockdown since March 28 last year following the surge in cases linked to the Omicron variant, a new boom in infections has also been seen in the southern metropolis CantonCapital of Guangdong Province, which announced the suspension facetoface classes in local elementary and middle schools starting today, April 11, and for at least a week. The only exception will be high school students whose institutions have closed housing and administrative conditions, Chen Xueming, deputy director of the city’s education bureau, said during a conference yesterday. Guangzhou a makeshift hospital at the Pazhou Exhibition Center, added Wu Linbo, deputy secretarygeneral of the city government. In addition, residents cannot leave the city unnecessarily and need a negative virus test within the last 48 hours.
In Guangzhou, 27 new cases of Covid were registered yesterday, 9 of them without symptoms, 11 the day before, according to the National Health Commission. The numbers are therefore very low compared to those that continue to be reported in the western world. Italy included, but that is enough to allow, within the framework of the “Zero covid“carried out by the Beijing government. Also a shanghai Also yesterday, 914 cases with symptoms and 25,173 without symptoms were recorded while the city remains in lockdown, which began on March 28. The confinement was only supposed to last a week, but at the moment the authorities have no plans to lift the blockade.
Meanwhile, popular anger is growing. The current restrictions have caused serious inconveniences for the approx 26 million inhabitants, with severe food and basic needs problems due to i delivery groups, inundated with requests. In many cases, residents place their orders as early as dawn, hoping to receive them Food but deliveries arrive with delays of many hours, as can be seen in a foreigner’s video circulated on Twitter showing hundreds of lunch packet in the corridors of an apartment building in the middle of the night. Supply problems have fueled even more bitter tensions between local residents and health and safety workers, with tensions spreading on social media. In fact, according to current regulations, only health workers, volunteers, delivery workers or those who have one are allowed to permit Special they can leave the house. Anyone who tests positive for the smear cannot isolate themselves in their own apartment, but has to go there designated facilities. Infected children are also hoped for by their parents if they remain negative.
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Other cities in the Land of the Dragon are also seeing increases in cases, with 21 of China’s 31 provinces reporting cases as of Sunday. In terms of WuhanSite of the world’s first outbreak more than two years ago, which saw 12 asymptomatic cases identified on Sunday and the government announced this morning that people must present a negative Covid test to take the subway and other public transport , reports Bloomberg. .