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For nearly half a year, most new Covid-19 cases were recorded in mainland China on Wednesday, according to a report by China’s National Health Commission on Thursday, which has led to stricter epidemiological measures in affected areas of the country.
In mainland China, 63 people were diagnosed with coronavirus infection on Wednesday. Eleven of them traveled to the country from abroad, but 51 patients were identified in Hopei Province in northern China, while one was identified in northeast Liaoning. In addition to patients, 79 new asymptomatic carriers were reported on Thursday, but asymptomatic cases in China are not included in the total number of cases.
In Hopei Province, which has a population of nearly 75 million and surrounds Beijing, the number of new illnesses identified in the past five days has risen to 90, while 144 more people are counted without complaints. Most of the new Covid cases appeared in a district of the province’s headquarters, Sichiachuang. Following the occurrence of the cases, the entire district was declared a high-risk area, currently the only part of this classification in mainland China. The entire Hopei province declared “ready for war” to quell the spread of the virus, and testing of the population in Sichiachuang, 11 million, began.
Several flights from Sichuanhuang have been canceled since Thursday morning, according to an article in the online edition of the Chinese party newspaper China Daily. The airport is less than ten kilometers from the city’s epidemic. And at the largest train station at Hopei headquarters, passengers were not allowed to board trains that could claim the price of train tickets. Another Hopei city, Xingtai, from which new cases have also been reported in recent days, has suspended various bus services, including intercity flights to and from the airport. Some of the roads through Hopei province were closed.
Kindergartens and schools in Sichuan Chuang have been closed since Wednesday and education is back online.
The Beijing city administration has announced that it will begin tightening controls on those arriving in the Chinese capital by road.
In mainland China, where the coronavirus epidemic has largely been contained in April of last year, the focus of epidemiological measures is on the lunar New Year of the moving moon, which arrives on February 12 this year. During the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in China, hundreds of millions of people often travel to celebrate with their families. In a free vaccination campaign, Chinese health authorities have set a goal of vaccinating 50 million people at high risk of infection across the country in early February.
The Chinese Ministry of Education has asked the authorities and educational institutions to set different dates for the start and end of the winter holidays, avoiding the formation of a wave of mass travel. However, in parts of the country where new cases have been recently reported, several universities have asked their students not to leave campus during their vacations, China Daily writes. (MTI)
Top image: An employee at St. Raphael Hospital in Zalaegerszeg is preparing a Pfizer-BioNtech coronavirus vaccine for vaccination on January 5, 2021. Source: MTI / György Varga
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