Beijing: The 17 million people in Shenzhen Chinese Technology Center began their first full day under the Blocking Monday, since restrictions were disseminated in Shanghai and other major cities to combat an outbreak that defies the strategy of Covid of tolerance Zero of the nation Southern city of Shenzhen imposed measure on Sunday to counteract an outbreak of omicron in factories and neighborhoods linked to nearby Hong Kong, which is recording dozens of daily deaths, since the virus runs rampant.
The main provider of Apple Foxconn suspended its operations in Shenzhen, the company said on Monday, since the blockade is difficult in economic activity through the Factory Center Shenzhen is one of the ten cities across the country to have blocked all residents, although the measure was taken on Monday in some parts of other important obstacles, including Dalian, Nanjing and Tianjin, who neighbors the capital.
Health officials have warned that stricter restrictions could be on their way, as concerns are mounted on China’s “Zero-Covid” approach in the face of highly transmissible omicron variant The authorities reported 2,300 cases of new viruses throughout the country on Monday and almost 3,400 a day before, the highest daily figure in two years There have been many small-scale groups in the villages and urban factories,” said Shenzhen official Huang Qiang, at an information meeting on Monday.
“This suggests a high risk of community propagation, and more precautions are still needed. The photos shared with AFP by a resident of Shenzhen showed housing compound tickets blocked by large plastic barriers, as residents exchanged jokes on social networks about his hurry to grab laptops from offices before blocking The technological actions collapsed in the Hong Kong exchange on Monday, according to the concern about the impact of the propagation of the Virus in Shenzhen, the home of Foxconn centers, as well as Huawei and Tencent investors.
Harden it
In Shanghai, the most populated city in China, residential areas and offices in some neighborhoods remained sealed on Monday, since city authorities try to avoid a complete blockade The metropolis reported on 170 cases of new viruses on Monday, enough to sow anxiety among companies on economic pain ahead A restaurant with four points of sale in different parts of Shanghai said it has to go through a mortuary of hyper-local restrictions, giving an indication of how ordinary life in China still sinks in its head by a pandemic that the rest of the world has learned. To deal with.
“Different districts adopt different policies,” he told AFP, requesting anonymity “I want to close one and keep the rest open, and I see how it goes later. What else can I do, except that it is highlighted? Other outbreak epicentres have been less fortunate The province of Jilin in northeastern country recorded more than 1,000 new cases during the second consecutive day, and the authorities tightened restrictions on Monday to prohibit residents from leaving their cities without permission from the police.
At least, five cities in the province have been blocked since the beginning of March, including Changchun’s main industrial base, whose nine million residents were limited at home on Friday While the load of cases is low in global terms, it is deeply alarming in China, where the authorities have been relentless in crushing in the clusters since the beginning of 2020 In recent days, at least 26 officials in three provinces have been dismissed due to their handling of local outbreaks, state media reported.
China has achieved so far to control sporadic domestic outbreaks through a combination of pressure blocks, mass testing and travel restrictions, but the last outbreak is testing the limits of your book of plays Higher Medicine Expert, Zhang Wenhong, said Monday that China can not relax its zero-Covid policy, despite the low rate of omicron fatality “It is very important that China continue to adopt the strategy of the Covid-zero community in the near future,” Zhang wrote on social networks.
