It is an 87-year-old man from Beijing with the Chinese Ministry of Health announcing more than 24,000 new domestic infections in the previous 24 hours, most of them asymptomatic.
China announced today the first death from covid-19 since May, where the rise in the number of cases is gradually leading to the closure of many places and shops.
It is an 87-year-old man from Beijing with the Chinese Ministry of Health announcing more than 24,000 new domestic infections in the previous 24 hours, most of them asymptomatic.
The most affected province is Guangdong, home to the megacities of Canton and Shenzhen.
621 new cases were registered in the capital. Some residents of Beijing are confined to their homes, while others have been transferred to special quarantine centers.
However, the authorities do not seem to want to impose generalized restrictions, as they did in previous outbreaks of the disease, as citizens are now resentful and tired of the measures to deal with covid.
Major shopping malls in Beijing announced today that they were suspending their operations, but others simply reduced their opening hours, or banned food from being served in their restaurants.
The man who died had mild covid symptoms, but his condition worsened due to a bacterial infection, according to state broadcaster CCTV. He is officially the first covid death since the end of May.
Managers of several office buildings in Chaoyang District, home to many businesses and embassies, today asked companies to prefer telecommuting. Many schools have also decided to switch to distance learning. Parks, gyms and sports grounds were closed.
The authorities of the Chinese capital asked yesterday Saturday to avoid “unnecessary” movements between the different districts of Beijing, in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
For their part, the authorities of Canton, where more than 8,000 cases have been detected, today began carrying out mass diagnostic tests in the central district of Haizhu, where about 1.8 million people live.
The Asian giant is the latest major global economy to follow a strict covid response policy, which aims to avoid infections and consequently deaths.
On November 11, Chinese authorities announced a relaxation of the so-called zero covid policy, notably reducing quarantines, mainly for travelers arriving in the country from abroad.
Nevertheless, a return to normality seems a distant prospect, as quarantines, lockdowns and mass testing are still being imposed on a large scale in the country.
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