The country referred Wednesday of 52 new patients in this northern city, bringing to 143 the number of patients identified since December 9th. The inhabitants must now “stay at homeless imperative reason”.
Le Monde with AFP
Due to a COVID-19 case rebound, more than a month of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, the Chinese authorities have imposed on Wednesday, December 22, a confinement in Xi’an, the city of the North of the known country for its buried terracotta army, which has 13 million inhabitants. The city had already considerably restricted the movements to contain a CVIV-19 home. The inhabitants must now “stay at homeless imperative reason”, announced the local authorities in a statement. A person per household is allowed to shop “every two days”.
The country referred Wednesday of 52 new patients to Xi’an, bringing to 143 the number of patients identified in the city since December 9th. Xi’an, who started on Tuesday to detect all of his population, had previously encouraged the inhabitants to avoid going out and gather in large groups. About 90 residential neighborhoods are under confinement but the number of people involved is not known.
“Zero Covid” Strategy
To prevent any spread from the virus, the inhabitants of Xi’an had had since Wednesday morning to have an authorization to take the train and leave the city, had reported the CCTV public television channel before the announcement of the confinement. In the air, more than 85% of the flights at the start and arrival of Xi’an were canceled, according to the specialized Variflight website.
China has been conducting a “zero Covid” strategy, which consists of doing everything to limit the occurrence of new cases, usually limited to a few tens per day only. China has virtually eradicated the epidemic on its soil since the spring of 2020 through long mandatory quarantines on arrival, targeted confines, massive screenings, moving displacement monitoring applications and drastic limitation of international flights. International flights.
However, the country continues to regularly deal with small sporadic homes, usually contained in the space of a few weeks. If the number of cases in China is extremely low compared to that of other countries, the authorities do not want to leave nothing to chance before the Olympic Winter Games (from 4 to 20 February) and the great lunar New Year trips (1 er February). In October, the country had imposed confinement in Lanzhou (Northwest) for its 4 million inhabitants.