In Hebei Province, 40 new local cases were confirmed on the 11th, 39 of which came from the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and one from Langfang; as of 10 a.m. on the 12th, 21 new local cases were confirmed in Hebei, 16 of which came from Shijiazhuang and 5 from Xingtai Nangong City. The authorities urgently declared the cities of Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang “closed” to prevent the virus from invading central Beijing.
Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, has been affected by a local outbreak of Wuhan pneumonia since Jan. 2, 2020, spreading first to Xingtai and then, in 11 days, to Langfang, which is adjacent to Beijing, where the confirmed patient is still working. In response, the Beijing authorities are on pins and needles, and to prevent an outbreak in the capital, the borders of Hebei Province are under strict control.
The Hebei provincial government held an emergency press conference on the 12th, Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Langfang city to implement “the whole area closed management”, personnel, vehicles are not necessary to go out. The villages and residential areas in Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang in the high-risk areas are also under more stringent closure measures. At the same time, the authorities of Hebei Province require people and vehicles in other areas of the province to strictly enforce the non-essential not to enter Beijing, non-essential not to leave the province, Hebei Province in the Beijing train station, bus station, the main highway intersections into Beijing, national and provincial roads and the border of Hebei Province to set up control stations, prohibit Shijiazhuang, Xingtai permanent residents, temporary residents, recent travel history of people into Beijing.
In addition, the neighboring Beijing, Hebei Province, Sanhe City, Langfang City, Gu’an County and other places on the 12th also issued an emergency notice to carry out full nucleic acid testing and home 7 days of isolation and observation, to prevent the virus into Beijing, Sanhe City, even since the 12th noon bus stop, resume driving time is unknown.
It is reported that the city of Sanhe is located between Beijing and Tianjin, is the Beijing-Qin high-speed railroad line, about 1 hour 20 minutes drive from Beijing, is one of the more economically powerful counties in Hebei Province, the population of about 710,000 people. As for Langfang city boundary is also north of Beijing, east of Tianjin, the southern boundary of Cangzhou City, west of Baoding City, the resident population of Langfang in 2019 is 4,920,500 people.
Hebei official notification that Hebei 12 as of 10 a.m., adding another 21 cases of local confirmed, including Shijiazhuang added 16 cases (15 cases in Gaocheng District, Development Zone 1 case); Xingtai added 5 cases. But by 5 p.m. on the 12th, Shijiazhuang Vice Mayor Meng Xianghong confirmed that by 12 noon on the 12th, Shijiazhuang alone had 21 new confirmed cases and 12 asymptomatic infections.
However, since the Chinese Communist Party has traditionally withheld data on the epidemic, the true figures have yet to be investigated.
Shijiazhuang is now the most severely affected area in China, and Gaocheng District is the only high-risk area in the country. More than 95% of the cases in Gaocheng District are from Zengcun Township, where the first local case was confirmed on the 2nd in Xiaoguzhuang Village. At present, Shijiazhuang Gaocheng District has “centralized quarantine” for the 3 villages with the most cases and 12 villages with cases; the neighboring 5 villages where no cases have been found are also under closed management and home prevention and control. The city of Xingtai involves Nangong cases of close contacts and sub-close contacts, but also all take centralized isolation measures. This makes the outside world can not help but question whether such a big official action is the number of local infections has been uncontrollable.
In addition, according to the Heilongjiang Province Qiqihar City Epidemic Prevention and Control Command, Qiqihar Angangxi District, three Suihua City Wangkui County returned to Qiqi personnel control and positive nucleic acid test, close contacts of their simultaneous screening test, found four positive nucleic acid test personnel, the city CDC on the 12th rechecked positive. 7 people are currently asymptomatic infected people, all from the village of Dawufuma. Qiqihar 12 citywide has started emergency response mechanism.
Some people have reported that traffic control has been implemented in the Anganxi district of Qiqihar. Traffic police are discouraging passing vehicles at intersections, and the district government has confirmed that the district is indeed closed and staff are having an emergency meeting. Angangxi District issued a notice that from 10:00 on January 12 on the Angangxi District to implement the closure of the city, all neighborhoods, villages and towns closed management.
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