China also ‘sealed’ Shanghai, ‘failed’ zero covid policy, outcry in many big cities including Shenzhen
1.70 crore population in strict lockdown for two days
In China’s tech hub Shenzhen city, a population of 17 million has been under complete lockdown for two days. After this, China’s most populous city Shanghai and many big cities have also come under restrictions. This is the story of a country adopting a policy of zero tolerance towards Kovid. On the day India reported the lowest number of corona cases after 680 days, China, the originator of Kovid-19, is adopting the strictest measures to protect itself from the outbreak of the Omicron variant. After shutting down Shenzhen a day earlier, restrictions were introduced on Monday in other major hubs of Dalian, Naljing and Tianjin, which are around the capital Beijing. Pictures of Shenzhen have surfaced, showing how people have been barricaded by plastic barricades to draw the Lakshman Rekha for them. Despite China’s strict control, the stock market of Hong Kong Exchange also fell on Monday in view of the threat of Corona being out of control. Because the city is the hub of companies like Foxconn, Huawei and Tencent.
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Outcry over the threat of community transfer
There are signs of a more dire passing in the days to come. Health officials say that given the infectivity of the Omicron variant, more strict restrictions may be implemented. According to the official figures released by the Chinese government, a total of 2,300 Kovid cases have been reported there on Monday, which is less than Sunday’s 3,400 and this was the highest number since the start of Corona from Wuhan. “There are many small clusters (of the infected) in urban villages and factories,” the Shenzhen city official said in a briefing on Monday. ‘This poses a high risk of community transfer and more precautions need to be taken.’
China wants to avoid lockdown in Shanghai
China has reached the stage of the worst Corona crisis so far, as evidenced by the situation in its most populous city of Shanghai. In view of the outcry in China, the Chinese government is trying to avoid a complete lockdown here, but the reality is that even on Monday, countless residential areas and offices are also in a completely sealed state. On Monday, only 170 new infections have been officially considered here, but seeing the increasing uneasiness in the businessmen and administration, the situation can be gauged.
Use of very strict restrictions at the local level
A restaurant trader in Shanghai has told AFP on condition of anonymity that first-class restrictions have been imposed at the local level, which suggests that as the world recovers from the epidemic, China’s life will be restored. Getting completely confused. The man who runs four restaurants said that ‘different districts follow different policies’. ‘I want to close one and open the rest, let’s see what happens later. What can I do apart from battling it? However, in many places the situation is even worse.
Lockdown has been imposed in many cities since the beginning of March
More than 1,000 new cases have been officially reported in northeast China’s Jilin province for the second day in a row. Since Monday, people are being told that they cannot go out of the city without the permission of the police. At least five cities in the province have been under lockdown since early March, including a large industrial area like Changchun, where 9 million people were confined to their homes as of Friday. Although the case load in China is still very low compared to the rest of the world, but the way the zero-covid policy has failed, the government there is apprehensive about the situation going completely uncontrolled. As a result, in just three provinces, at least 26 officials have been sacked for not handling the local outbreak within days.
