Three thousand medical and nursing aid Shijiazhuang people rush to buy food and vegetables

Staff in Handan, Hebei province, prepare to spray disinfectant in a school compound.

The epidemic in Hebei has entered a wartime state as the city of Shijiazhuang becomes the highest risk area. 6, the Hebei Provincial health Commission urgently deploys 3,000 medical personnel from outside the country to support the situation. Local people are worried about food shortages in closed communities and are rushing to buy food and vegetables.

The Chinese Communist Party media reported that Hebei Province added 51 local confirmed cases on the 6th, including 50 cases in Shijiazhuang, 1 case in Xingtai, and 69 asymptomatic cases, including 67 cases in Shijiazhuang and 2 cases in Xingtai.

According to reports, the Hebei Health Commission has deployed 3,000 medical personnel from overseas to support the expansion of the epidemic in Shijiazhuang, with the first 1,000 arriving in Shijiazhuang on the afternoon of the 6th.

In the early morning of Jan. 7, the city’s Discipline Inspection Commission reported that three officials in Gaocheng District were held accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention, including Feng Zhiqiang, vice mayor of Gaocheng District Government, Nie Xiaonan, a village packet official in Liujiazuo Village, and Sun Guohui, secretary of Liujiazuo Village Party Branch.

The three were accused of ineffective prevention of epidemics and inappropriate work. Feng Zhiqiang was to a warning within the party, Nie Xiaonan and Sun Guohui received serious warnings within the party.

Hebei outbreak, the province entered a state of war, 6 Shijiazhuang Gaocheng District was also listed as a “high-risk area”, which is rare after the last wave of epidemic in China, then the entire county administrative regions included in the high-risk state.

On the evening of the 6th, Shijiazhuang held a second press conference on the prevention and control of the epidemic, and Chang Junhua, deputy director of the city’s Civil Affairs Bureau, said that in terms of community prevention and control, only one entrance and exit was reserved for each district in the city. Shijiazhuang housing estates have been closed for management.

Shijiazhuang Railway Station fully suspended ticket sales to outgoing passengers, Shijiazhuang, Handan areas to Beijing to limit the number of cars into Beijing, tickets are suspended. Quarantine personnel stationed in various areas to enter the railway station and Shijiazhuang Airport travel passengers need to be valid within 72 hours with a negative nucleic acid certificate before taking the train, boarding.

A number of high-speed lines in Hebei prohibit vehicles on the road and discourage the return of vehicles. Shijiazhuang passenger terminal has announced a temporary suspension of operations. Local classes have been suspended due to the outbreak.

As of 9:45 a.m. on January 6, Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport has cancelled 31 flights, with a cancellation rate of 29%; 33 outbound flights have been cancelled, with a cancellation rate of 30%. 7 airlines have cancelled flights to Shijiazhuang Airport.

As the Chinese Communist Party has been covering up the truth about the epidemic, it is believed that the actual epidemic is much more serious than the official announcement. The local people’s rush to buy food, vegetables and other necessities confirms the seriousness of the epidemic.

The video shows a large number of people in Shijiazhuang City snapping up food in a supermarket on the 5th, with many shelves empty and only cartons of food left. The supermarket checkout counter is lined with customers, and customers’ carts are filled with food such as oil, rice, canned goods and vegetables.

Local netizens said that when they came home from work on the evening of the 5th after the supermarket to buy food, they found people with multiple shopping bags filled with ready-to-eat food, which was not much panic, but seeing everyone rush to buy food, they could not help but rush together to buy, and the shelves were almost empty.

The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the National Health Commission sent a team of experts on the 5th has arrived in Shijiazhuang and Xingtai. The director of the National Health Commission, Ma Xiaowei, who led the delegation to arrive, said that the epidemic situation in Hebei is still developing and the situation is very serious, to promote the prevention and control of the epidemic as soon as possible to see success.

Wang Dongfeng, secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the provincial People’s Congress, admitted that Hebei is currently facing a grim situation of epidemic prevention and control, and the task is very difficult.

The picture shows the temperature of a driver being checked at the exit of a highway in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province on February 13, 2020.

At present, the epidemic in Hebei has spread across provinces, and Hutubi County, Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, added a new “imported asymptomatic infected person” on the 6th, a 58-year-old male truck driver from Shijiazhuang. In addition, there are rumors that 9 people in Xi’an recently attended a wedding in Zhengding County, Hebei, where a confirmed patient also attended the same wedding.

Netizens broke the news that Shanxi has banned the entry of vehicles with Hebei license plates, and in some places, the roads are simply closed.

In addition, authorities are highly nervous because the entire Hebei province surrounds the capital Beijing. Since the 6th, Beijing has taken a number of control measures such as highway closures, entering stations and airports to check for negative nucleic acid certificates, and has stopped selling tickets to Beijing from various areas in Shijiazhuang and Handan, cancelling the number of trips, etc.

In addition, all vehicles with Hebei Shijiazhuang license plates are blocked outside Beijing and can only take a detour to Tangshan, and are not allowed to pass through Beijing, let alone enter Beijing.

Currently, the outbreak is also continuing in Beijing. After a cluster of infections in Beijing’s Shunyi district, local cases continue to climb and many villages have been sealed off. Currently, there are seven medium-risk areas in Beijing. Officials earlier announced a moratorium on approving large-scale performances in Beijing during New Year’s Day and New Year’s Day.

The Xicheng District, where the central authorities of Zhongnanhai, the core of CCP power, and Beijing’s Great Hall, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Central Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the State Council, and the National Development and Reform Commission are located, showed asymptomatic infections on December 24, 2020, and the Xishiku community and Shuntianfu were closed, with full staff doing overnight nucleic acid testing.

The CCP virus had also approached Zhongnanhai in the first half of 2020. At the time, Ming Pao quoted sources as saying that some top CCP leaders had moved from Zhongnanhai to the western suburbs of Beijing to work at Yuquan Mountain as a result of the outbreak.