China locks down city of 9 million amid new spike in COVID-19 cases | CBC News - Associated Press:
March 11, 2022 - "China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious Omicron variant. Residents are required to remain home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and other necessities every two days. All residents must undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended.
"The latest lockdowns, which also include Yucheng with 500,000 people in the eastern province of Shandong, show China is sticking to the draconian approach to the pandemic it has enforced for most of the past two years.... Authorities have repeatedly pledged to lock down any community where one or more cases are found under China's 'zero-tolerance' approach to the pandemic. Another 93 cases were confirmed in the nearby city of Jilin that bears the same name as the surrounding province. Authorities have already ordered a partial lockdown in the city and severed travel links with other cities."
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-covid-pandemic-lockdown-1.6381175
China orders 51 million into lockdown as COVID surges | ABC News -Britt Clennett & Karson Yiu:
14 March 14, 2022 - "China is facing its worst COVID crisis since early 2020.... China, the last major country to relentlessly pursue a Covid-zero policy, reported 1,437 cases across dozens of cities on Monday. That’s a fourfold jump in a week. The epicenter of the omicron variant outbreak is the Northeastern Jilin province, where 895 cases were recorded, but there are also outbreaks and containment measures in ... Shanghai, the financial powerhouse, and Shenzhen, the southern tech hub.
"Authorities announced on Monday afternoon that all 24 million people in Jilin province would go into lockdown, including the previously locked down city of Changchun. It's the first provincial lockdown since Wuhan and Hubei in January 2020.
"On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.... The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley. It’s home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country’s key ports....
"There’s immense pressure on local authorities to contain the virus, with state media reporting that the Jilin City mayor and the head of the Changchun city health commission were dismissed from their roles over the weekend.
"Across the border from Shenzhen, neighboring Hong Kong ... recorded 26,908 cases and 286 more deaths on Monday, officials said. Hong Kong’s death rate is the highest in the developed world, in part because of sluggish vaccination rates among the elderly. Mega isolation facilities are being built across the Hong Kong for people with mild cases. One facility, with 3,900 beds, was built in a week. ABC News witnessed several busloads of people arriving at the facility from all over the city..... The mental-health strain of the strict lockdown has also becoming apparent. Last month, police reported three suicide attempts in 27 hours at one of the quarantine camps.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/china-orders-51-million-lockdown-covid-surges/story?id=83431247
Millions under lockdown in China as virus surges | Yahoo News - Poornima Weerasekara & Laurie Chen, AFP:
March 15, 2002 - "At least 13 cities nationwide were fully locked down on Tuesday, while various other cities had partial lockdowns. The northeastern province of Jilin was the worst-hit, with over 3,000 new cases on Tuesday, according to the National Health Commission. Residents of several cities there including the provincial capital of Changchun – home to nine million people – are under stay-at-home orders. Shenzhen – the southern tech hub of 17.5 million people – is three days into a lockdown with many factories closed and supermarket shelves emptying, while China's largest city Shanghai is under a lattice of restrictions – which fall short of a citywide shutdown....
"Jilin's governor vowed to go all-out to 'achieve community zero-Covid in a week' during an emergency meeting Monday night, state media reported. Residents of Jilin, which is on the border with North Korea, were banned from travelling out of and around the province Monday."
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/nearly-30-million-under-lockdown-100428957.html
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