The Chinese capital Beijing, facing a surge in COVID-19 contamination, continued to close shops and residential complexes, and authorities raced against time to detect infections and isolate contact cases.
At a news conference on Friday, Chinese health officials did not respond to questions about a possible Containment in Beijing or the circumstances likely to result in such action.
Chaoyang District, the city’s busiest case district, began a third and final round of mass screening of its 3.5 million residents on Friday. The majority of the city’s other neighborhoods are scheduled to begin their third round of screenings on Saturday.
New buildings have been restricted while spas, KTV lounges, gyms, movie theaters, libraries and at least two malls have been forced to close on Friday.
Chinese authorities say getting rid of it is vital COVID-19 to save as many lives as possible.
“We must recognize that the virus is damaging the economy,” said Liang Wannian, head of the National Health Commission’s COVID response expert group.
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“Fighting the COVID epidemic is a war, a war of resistance, a people’s war,” he added.
Beijing reported 49 cases on April 28, up from 50 the day before, a far cry from Shanghai’s numbers.
The lockdown in Shanghai is being eased
to shanghaiAfter a month of confinement, authorities said on Friday more people had been allowed to leave their homes in recent days. More than 12 million people, almost half the population, now fall into this category.
However, a large number of them cannot leave their accommodation and are ordered to return home by one of the 52,000 police officers mobilized for detention. There are few places to go as shops and other public places are closed.
Many residents complain about the rigidity of the police, who sometimes do not take into account health emergencies or other individual circumstances.