Shijiazhuang outbreak continues to expand Nangong city also lost Hebei suspected hidden epidemic cut into Beijing traffic

After New Year’s Day 2021, a new crown epidemic (CCP virus) emerged in Nangong, Hebei, and the whole of Hebei and even Beijing were on the brink of an emergency collection of medical supplies in Xingtai on January 10, 2021. Video screenshot/provided by a knowledgeable source

After Shijiazhuang’s closure, many neighboring cities have been closed in a strict manner for nearly a week, including Nangong City, where more than 5,000 beds have to be urgently built to accommodate patients with the new virus.

According to an official document obtained by Radio Free Asia from the United Front Work Department of Xingtai City, the epidemic in Hebei Province, which has been going on for nearly a week, is worsening, and the authorities are planning to set up a large shelter for the new crown patients in Nangong City, which is under the jurisdiction of Xingtai.

Ms. Chen, a citizen of Nangong, confirmed that the epidemic is worsening and that the city has been closed since the 3rd, and that the blockade is now being extended.

Ms. Chen said: “We were closed on the 3rd here. The whole Nangong I tell you there is no place to live, come over and can not enter. Traffic is cut off, the community is closed. No one can go in or out.

But when asked about the specific epidemic figures, as well as the situation at the shelter, Ms. Chen said she could not tell the public.

Ms. Chen said: this does not know, it is not convenient to say. It’s completely closed, you know what that means.

The worst-hit areas of this wave of new crown epidemic in Hebei are in Nangong City and the provincial capital Shijiazhuang City. Earlier officials said the virus in the two places is highly homologous.

According to Ms. Wang, who works in Shijiazhuang’s epidemic prevention and control department, Shijiazhuang actually has more than a hundred new cases per day, but the official figures released are only in the tens. Shijiazhuang is now in a state of panic, with the city at a standstill, and transportation to Beijing has been cut off.

Ms. Wang said: all traffic has been paralyzed, Shijiazhuang more than 10 million nucleic acid in three days all done, now immediately began to deploy a second. Now more than 100 per day, right. Nangong is even more ah, quite serious. Some are the whole village to pull, should be isolated. And, Shijiazhuang and Hebei people are despised, like street rats everyone shouting, the same as Wuhan last year, ah, as long as there is Wuhan, do not go out. Beijing don’t want to go, high-speed, subway, airplanes, all the transport stopped.

Ms. Wang also said that Nangong City, about 100 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, is currently under tight lockdown, but the details are not clear even to insiders like them.

Sources from the United Front Work Department of Xingtai confirmed to our reporter that the epidemic is serious, and pointed out that because of the blockade, it is difficult for foreign supplies to reach Nangong, which is why supplies are collected from local enterprises.

Xingtai United Front Work Department: 5000 copies, it that 16 pieces is a copy. According to the room to match, a room needs so many things. The hospital is about the same, that’s what it means. Because now the field supplies can not come in, the whole logistics are broken. The field can drive their own can be sent to Xingtai this highway, we coordinate to put down. However, the general situation of foreign cars can not enter Hebei, no permit can not get on the road, are closed. Large car drivers are also reluctant to go there.

Xingtai United Front Work Department on Sunday (10) to private enterprises issued an initiative letter said that Nangong City is in urgent need of supplies, including single beds, sleepers, and simple living materials including wash bags, and even garbage frames, medical garbage bags. It also said that 5,000 copies were needed and hoped to complete 3,000 copies within two days.

Our correspondent compared and found that the supporting pattern of these supplies is almost the same as the standard of Wuhan’s Fangcai Hospital early last year, and also the third area to prepare the shelter site on such a large scale after Wuhan and Suifenhe early last year.

Around New Year’s Day this year, the epidemic began to rebound in Hebei and directly threatened Beijing. Beijing, for its part, quickly imposed strict controls throughout the province and took the opportunity to ban private church activities. But the true scale of the epidemic remains opaque to date.