China has infections under control, but for a few weeks it has been facing some sporadic outbreaks, despite the fact that the number of new daily cases rarely rises above 200.
Before the imminent celebration of the Winter Olympics, Beijing tried to shield itself against the Omicron variant by prohibiting access to people from areas with registered cases and requiring recent negative tests, in addition to asking the population not to leave the city in the upcoming Spring Festival holiday.
But last Saturday, the capital identified the first case of the contagious Omicron variant in a person who received a letter from Canada on which there were traces of the virus.
The infection was detected in the Haidian district of the Chinese capital, where many technology company headquarters are located.
The authorities set out to test the other occupants of the residential block where the patient lived, as well as some adjoining offices.
They also restricted access to 17 places related to the infected person, the French agency reported.
The announcement of the first contagion took place hours after the authorities of the southern city of Zhuhai, located on the border with Macao, announced the night before that they had detected a mild patient and six asymptomatic patients with that variant from a massive test among their population released from a case in a neighboring city.
As a result, bus lines were suspended in some neighborhoods and its 2.4 million inhabitants were asked not to leave Zhuhai “unless necessary”.
Meanwhile, beauty salons, gyms and cinemas have been closed since last Thursday.
17 days before the Winter Olympics in Beijing, to be held between February 4 and 20, China is on alert: millions of residents, in various cities, are confined to their homes, many domestic flights have been canceled and some factories were closed for prevention.
Yesterday, the postal service published a regulation that directs employees to disinfect all packages arriving from abroad and requires that workers who handle these shipments receive a booster dose of the anticovid vaccine.
In addition, citizens were called on to reduce their orders and purchases from “countries and regions with high risk of Covid”, the Chinese postal service announced.
Source From: Ambito
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