On January 3, an outbreak occurred in Nangong City and Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.
A local outbreak of the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, continues to heat up, with a large number of infected cases increasing in a short period of time. Shijiazhuang’s Gaocheng district, where the outbreak occurred, was upgraded to a “high-risk area” on January 6. As the epidemic has intensified recently, local people are worried about the lack of food due to the closure of their neighborhoods and have been rushing to local supermarkets to buy food and necessities.
Hebei has entered a state of war as the epidemic heats up. According to the Hebei Provincial health Commission on Jan. 6, 20 new local confirmed cases and 43 new local asymptomatic infections were reported in Hebei Province on Jan. 5. Among the local confirmed cases, Shijiazhuang reported 19 cases and Xingtai reported 1 case. Five new cases of asymptomatic infections were imported from abroad.
Several highway routes in Hebei are closed to vehicles and vehicles are advised to return. Local classes have been suspended due to the outbreak.
The passenger terminal in Shijiazhuang, where the outbreak is most severe, has also suspended operations. As of 9:45 p.m. on January 6, Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport had cancelled 31 flights with a cancellation rate of 29% and 33 outbound flights with a cancellation rate of 30%. The overall number of inbound and outbound flights cancelled is four times that of January 5.
According to the official notification of Hebei, since January 6, 2021, the entire area of Gao Cheng District in Shijiazhuang City will be adjusted to a high-risk area.
According to a previous official notification, on January 4, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, had 11 new confirmed local cases and 30 new asymptomatic infections. The new confirmed cases ranged in age from 30 to 89 years old, and six of them had attended events in Xiaoguzhuang Village, Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang, but the notification did not specify what events in the village they attended, and three others (one of whom also attended events in Xiaoguzhuang Village) attended a wedding.
Xiaoguozhuang Village, Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District, was upgraded to a high-risk area for the outbreak on January 5; Liujiazuo Village, Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, is a medium-risk area.
The city of Shijiazhuang has entered a “state of war” and the city’s Gaocheng District has closed the village and conducted nucleic acid testing on the entire resident population of Gaocheng District, with 40,759 people sampled.
The Chinese Communist Party has consistently covered up the truth about the epidemic, and it is widely believed that the actual epidemic is much worse than the official announcement. The local population’s rush to buy food, vegetables and other necessities confirms the seriousness of the epidemic.
A video circulated on the Internet shows that on January 5, a large number of people in Shijiazhuang city bought instant noodles in the supermarket, and many shelves were emptied, leaving only cartons of food. The supermarket checkout counter was lined up with customers, and customer carts were filled with food such as oil, rice, canned goods and vegetables.
Some people said that Shijiazhuang has entered a state of war, all schools will begin to close, “everyone will prepare food first, stay home and do not go out.”
There are also local netizens said that when they came home from work on the evening of the 5th through the supermarket to buy food, they found people with multiple shopping bags full of ready-to-eat food, “originally did not panic much, but to see everyone rush to buy food, I also could not help but rush together to buy, the shelves were almost empty.”
Hebei Province in just four days, only the official notification, as of 24:00 on January 5, Hebei has 39 cases of confirmed cases, 78 cases of local asymptomatic infections (another 8 cases of asymptomatic infections turned into confirmed cases), that is, 117 new infections in Hebei.
According to Hebei Daily’s news, as of 7 a.m. on January 6, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang Museum, Shijiazhuang Library, Xibaipo Memorial Hall and Hebei Provincial Museum have issued announcements that they are temporarily closed from January 6.
Feng Zijian, deputy director of the CPC Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the National Health Commission has sent an expert steering group and an epidemic prevention and control steering group to Shijiazhuang and Xingtai.
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