One million people in quarantine in the city of Wuhan

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Wuhan became known around the world in early 2020, as the first place where scientists detected the coronavirus, and it is the first city to be put under strict restrictions

Nearly a million people in a suburb of Wuhan in China, where a case of coronavirus was first recorded, have been quarantined, according to a BBC report.

Residents of Jiangxia District were ordered to stay inside their homes or facilities for three days after four asymptomatic cases of the virus were identified. Covid.

China is pursuing a “zero Covid” strategy, which includes strict isolation rules and local lockdowns. This results in far fewer deaths than in many other countries.

In Wuhan, a city of 12 million people, routine tests revealed two asymptomatic cases two days ago. Two more cases were identified through contact tracing and shortly after the ban order was issued.

Wuhan became known around the world at the beginning of 2020, as the first place where scientists detected the coronavirus, and it is the first city where strict restrictive measures were implemented.

At the time, the world was shocked by the strict ban, but many cities and countries were soon forced to impose similar measures of their own.

Later, China was seen as handling Covid in an exemplary manner, with restrictions being lifted much earlier than in many other countries. However, this has changed again, with China pursuing a “zero Covid” strategy, leading to frequent local bans, rather than trying to live with the virus like most other countries.

Last month, Shanghai finally emerged from a strict two-month lockdown, although residents are adjusting to a “new normal” of frequent mass testing.

A growing number of Chinese companies and factory production lines maintain a closed system in order to pursue the goal of completely eliminating Covid. In an effort to keep parts of the economy open, workers have been told to live temporarily in their workplaces to minimize contact between work and home.

Earlier this week, scientists said there was “irrefutable evidence” that Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood and Wildlife Market was at the center of the Covid outbreak. Two studies re-examined information from the original outbreak in the city.

One of the studies shows that the first known cases were clustered around the market in question. The other uses genetic information to trace the timing of the epidemic. It suggests there were two variants, introduced to humans in November or early December 2019. The researchers said this evidence suggests the virus was present in live mammals sold at the Huanan market in late 2019.

One of the researchers involved, virology professor David Robertson, from the University of Glasgow, told the BBC he hoped the studies would “correct the false record that the virus came from a laboratory”.

In China, there have been more than 2.2 million cases and 14,720 deaths since the start of the pandemic in 2019, according to the US Johns Hopkins University.

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