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Local authorities in Beijing announced Wednesday that they will carry out surveys of all travelers who came to the city from abroad after December 10 cast a subway station will close, since the Chinese capital registered seven cases of SARS-CoV-2 on Tuesday, the highest number of infections of the new coronavirus the last three weeks.
The measures were also announced the country faces the most serious pandemic outbreak since March 2020 and February marks the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday season, when hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens travel to their home countries, raising concerns about a new wave that could paralyze the economy again.
China’s Ministry of Health previously reported that until midnight yesterday tuesday was informed about 103 cases of SARS-CoV-2 in mainland China, up from 118 the previous year. Jilin Province (northwest) recorded 46 infections, a record for the third day in a row, while Beijing province, which surrounds Beijing, confirmed 19.
Is the eighth consecutive day in which the sum of the cases exceeds 100.
Tighter measures
The Beijing Daily reports that the leadership of the capital’s party organization and government officials agreed in an emergency meeting yesterday intensify surveillance measures, reduce public gatherings and the number of passengers on public transport.
The government now chooses to allow local authorities to choose which measures to use to deal with outbreaks, avoiding confinements imposed when the epidemic was at its peak in China in the spring of 2020.
Local authorities in the areas where most new cases are reported choose combinations Draconian travel restrictions, travel bans, and mass testing. Tens of millions of people have been ordered to stay home or have been quarantined in Hebei, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.
A party official in a village on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, has made himself available to treat a man who entered the community to buy cigarettes, defying recommendations. The man was tied to a tree and looted by order of the party executive.
Authorities have urged citizens to avoid traveling before the lunar new year festive season and not attending gatherings such as weddings.
The number of asymptomatic carriers, which the ministry does not include in confirmed cases, fell to 58, from 91 the previous year.
Hospitals in China are treating 1,473 patients with COVID-19 (+95 compared to the previous one), 62 in severe to critical condition (+1), transmits AMPE.
Officially, the report of the pandemic in the country where the new coronavirus appeared in December 2019 amounts to 4,635 deaths out of a total of 89,557 infections.
