Beijing is on alert today because of increase in cases of the coronavirus, with a test campaign launched in the Chinese capital and residents to make supplies worried about lockdown enforcement.
Beijing residents seem to be afraid of it possibility lockdown enforcement like the one in Shanghaiwith the city’s 25 million residents locked in their homes since early April.
In the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of China announced 51 new deaths from covid-19 in Shanghai, a record number for the financial capital of China. A total of half a million cases have been detected in the city since March 1.
No one knows how long the severe lockdown that has been imposed in Shanghai, which has begun to have, will last. serious effects on the mental health of the inhabitants of the city and adversely affect the Chinese economy.
In some neighborhoods they were placed tall, metal fences outside the doors of residential buildings to prevent tenants from going outside.
However, residents express their strong reaction to this measure, which they criticize on social media, fearing that they will be trapped in buildings. Their outrage and anxiety were heightened when a fire broke out in a residential building on Saturday.
China has been facing an outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic since early March, which has spread almost across the country and is testing its zero-tolerance policy against covid-19.
This morning in Beijing queues of hundreds of people were formed, waiting to undergo a diagnostic test.
The Ministry of Health announced today 19 new cases of covid-19 in Beijing. 47 cases have been detected in the Chinese capital since Friday, more than half in Chaoyang District.
The authorities of this district, where about 3.5 million people live, asked residents to limit their public activities and postpone private lessons at home. Most schools, shops and offices remain open.
In Chaoyang live mainly rich Chinesewhile there are foreign embassies, multinational offices and large entertainment venues.
«The current outbreak in Beijing is spreading silently from as yet unknown sources and is spreading fast“, Warned yesterday Sunday an official of the municipal authorities.
The Choyang authorities stressed yesterday that the situation is “serious and difficultAnd that they must be taken emergency measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
More than ten buildings in the district have been put in lockdown, while all residents will undergo a diagnostic test again on Wednesday and Friday.
The people of Beijing, fearing a repeat of the Shanghai scenario, rush to the supermarkets en masse to buy basic necessities or place bulk orders online.
Currently in the Chinese capital there is no shortage of fresh produce or basic necessities.
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