This announcement comes at the moment when China faces its most serious VVID-19 soaring for two years. This containment is the most important in the country since that of the metropolis of Xi’an and its 13 million inhabitants, in December.
Le Monde with AFP
Two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, China faces its most serious outbreak of new cases. The nine million inhabitants of the Chinese city of Changchun, in the north-east of the country, have been placed in containment, announced, on Friday, March 11, the local authorities.
Only one person per household is allowed to go out, once every other day, “the town hall said. This containment is the largest announced in China since the Xi’an metropolis, north of the country, and its 13 million inhabitants at the end of last year.
China. , saved for two years
The country, where the virus was the first time detected at the end of 2019, quickly endigated the epidemic from the spring of 2020, by adopting very strict containment measures striking whole cities. The Asian giant has thus achieved largely to stop contagion, with an official balance sheet of just over 100,000 cases, including 4,636 fatal exactly, within two years.
But the Omicron strain is at the origin of localized outbreaks which concerned Friday 1,369 people exactly in the last twenty-four hours, according to the data from the Ministry of Health.
A balance sheet that remains low encomparation with the rest of the world but which is none the highest for China since the first phase of the epidemic, early 2020. On this total, the authorities counted 158 cases imported and 814 asymptomatic cases, which are the subject of a separate count.