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They are not Covid-19 alarm numbers (on the contrary, a surprising zero even yesterday) but data on tourist flows arriving from China. Columns of people in Big Wall, all narrow along the autumn-colored forest trails in Liaoning province, clustered on the Shanghai Bund to admire the skyscrapers of Pudong. Are these the pictures that have been running on the Beijing news for seven days,while in Europe there are restrictive measures to try to extinguish the second wave of coronavirus. China was on vacation until yesterday, October 1, the feast of the founding of the People’s Republic. They call her Hungjin Zhou, the Golden Week that every year makes hundreds of millions of Chinese move. This time it was the first major reset test for the tourism sector following the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, which in January coincided with the Lunar New Year exodus.
The Chinese people were able to enjoy a long-awaited leisure break and in the eight 637 million trips were recorded between October 1 and yesterdaysays the Beijing Ministry of Tourism, noting that the flow represents 79% compared to the same period of 2019. People are still faithful to the advice to wear a mask, but under these conditions social distancing is wavering.
This mass movement was encouraged to reactivate consumption. This was a calculated risk, because dIn about a month, China reports zero internal infections. The only reported cases of coronavirus positivity lately are imported ones: Chinese citizens returning from abroad or foreign travelers. The sanitary control procedures for those arriving in China (only for work reasons) are rigorous: a swab must be done before boarding and sent to the Chinese diplomatic offices in the countries of departure; Upon disembarkation, new tampon and even if it is negative, it is mandatory to stay 14 days in the hotels designated by the authorities, under medical observation; at the end third buffer and mandatory registration in an application With this system, the National Health Commission has identified 2,951 infected people arriving at airports, since the authorities began to reopen the borders last spring. In total, in China, the reported cases of Covid-19 patients as of January are 85,500, with 4,634 deaths, mainly in Wuhan and Hubei.
After the first wave died down in the spring, with Wuhan released from the blockade on April 8, the government implemented a cautious strategy: Controls continued in large cities, and each outbreak was addressed with targeted and immediate closures, such as those of the Beijing food market in mid-June..
The Party-State claims to have controlled the situation, the numbers communicated by their metropolises at this time give him reason, although it is not certain that the same care in the identification of infections is possible in rural areas. Hopefully, Golden Week has not put the coronavirus back into circulation. We will know in two weeks if moving hundreds of millions of tourists was a gamble.
October 8, 2020 (change October 8, 2020 | 23:31)
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