The city of Shenzhen, one of the economic centers of southern China, ordered Sunday evening to its 17 million inhabitants to stay at home for a week.
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After rising days of restrictions, the city of Shenzhen, one of the economic centers of southern China, ordered Sunday night to its 17 million inhabitants to stay at home for a week. On Saturday, Shanghai drastically limited the aisles and coming from his adminisons by imposing two PCR tests in forty-eight hours for entry or exit from the city. The day before, the city of Changchun, the capital of Jilin, in northeastern Chinese, had announced the strict confinement of its 9 million inhabitants, measures soon imitated by several cities in the province.
More than two months after the appearance of the first cases of Omicron Variant, China faces an explosion of the number of infections, spread over many homes: the number of cases increased from 330 cases on average per day At the beginning of March to 3,400 cases for the day of Saturday, March 12, an absolute record since the beginning of the epidemic in Wuhan two years ago. Sunday, 2,300 people have presented positive tests.
China continues to apply a zero tolerance policy against the virus, reacting to the slightest case in insulating fourteen days the contact cases of the patient, and even cases contacts of contact cases, rigorously traced. When homes appear, cities do not hesitate to test millions of people and isolate entire districts. But China had no longer confined major city from a Delta home in the city of Xi’an, end 2021.
Explosion of imported cases
Despite some cases of Omicron Variant, the country had managed to maintain control over the epidemic during the Beijing Olympic Games, thanks to a hermetic sanitary bubble. The game has changed in recent weeks, with an explosion of imported cases, including Hongkong. The Chinese territory has made the failure of its zero covid policy, recording up to 56,000 cases on March 4, to the point that the territory of 7 million inhabitants posted the highest per capita mortality rate at world, since early March.
China now puts everything in place to avoid a repetition of this scenario on the continent, less rich and less well equipped with medical infrastructures than Hongkong. In Shanghai, where hundreds of residences are confined, schools have been closed and courses take place online from this Monday. Temporary test centers appeared in city parks while many companies require all of their employees to be tested. “We were asked to close the plant for two days and all employees should do a test,” says a great French company in the Minhang district in southern Shanghai. The Chinese economic capital recorded 169 cases for Sunday day, including 128 asymptomatic.
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