The outbreak is serious in Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang, Hebei Province, China, with 84 cases of New Coronavirus pneumonia confirmed in Shijiazhuang on Tuesday (12). The whole city of Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang is closed. To prevent the virus from spreading to Beijing, all railroads and highways into Beijing were closed. Beijing even extended the quarantine period from 21 days to 28 days.
The Hebei Provincial health Commission announced that on January 12, 90 new local confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia were reported in Hebei Province, including 84 cases reported in Shijiazhuang, including 27 asymptomatic infections that turned into confirmed cases, and 6 cases reported in Xingtai. Langfang had 1 case. All residents of the three cities mentioned above were tested for nucleic acid and underwent mandatory home isolation for 7 days.
City closure in Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang
A resident of Shijiazhuang, Mr. Pan, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia this Wednesday (13) that the city’s residents were all quarantined and not allowed to leave their homes, and that one case was found in the neighborhood where he lives: “There was a case in my neighborhood, and the whole unit was sealed off and the neighborhood was closed for a week. We can only buy things online, couriers also have to do secondary nucleic acid testing, our nearby supermarkets deliver items to the entrance of the cell, you take through the bars. The cell of this confirmed case of our community to be closed for more than half a month to (January) 26, no confirmed cases of the cell said to be closed first 7 days. 12 a day added 84 cases, has accumulated 28 cases.”
The new pneumonia was diagnosed in Shijiazhuang Chang’an District, Janezhu Home District, Building 2, Unit 1, the local epidemic work leadership team’s citation on Tuesday said that all households should take home isolation observation, restrict access, if there are no new cases, isolation measures will be lifted at 24:00 on January 26, 2021.
To prevent the spread of the outbreak to Beijing. All land transportation into Beijing was cut off by authorities from early Sunday morning. A Beijing car owner was stopped at a highway toll booth early that morning. He complained, “I went to Tianjin to do some business, but I was blocked from entering Beijing. Stay a while to find a hotel to stay first, out (Beijing) to quite good, can not return, you say this thing”
Langfang station staff reminded passengers not to go to Beijing
In Langfang railway station, the staff issued a reminder to the passengers: “All people are not allowed to enter Beijing again, after you come back, you can no longer get out, so I hope that you prepare in advance, tomorrow (Tuesday) do not come, come also can not enter (Beijing), from today, we Langfang city for the full nucleic acid test. After three days of inspection, home isolation for seven days.”
Left: Shijiazhuang Jianzhujiayuan district posted a notice of isolation for residents, no one is allowed to enter or leave. Second from left: Outbreak in many places in Hebei, as in Wuhan last year. Second from right::Shijiazhuang residents quarantined, city roads empty. (Courtesy of volunteers/reporter Qiao Long); Right: A confirmed case in Shijiazhuang’s Jianzhujiaoyuan neighborhood has its doors sealed. (Video screenshot/reporter Qiao Long)
Since Tuesday, Langfang City started full nucleic acid testing, causing residents to panic as people rushed to vegetable markets, supermarkets to grab food and stock up on rice and flour.
Beijing extends isolation observation period to 28 days
The Shunyi district of Beijing, which borders Langfang in Hebei, is also completely closed, as authorities fear being affected by the epidemic and adopt a strict defense strategy to cut off interaction with Hebei. Ms. Sun, a staff member of the Shiyuan Street Office in Beijing’s Shunyi District, told the station that the government has extended the quarantine period for travelers entering Beijing from 21 days to 28 days: “Now the main prevention of invisible infected people, the quarantine period is now 14 days plus 7 days (21 days), plus another 7 days, which equals 28 days. I do not know if it is a new type of virus, this we do not know, certainly now is strictly guarded. Now temporarily not allowed to enter Beijing, he was checking the other day someone from Hebei stole from the ice river surface drive into Beijing, now the highway is closed.”
Beijing Shunyi District Health Department, a cadre of Mr. Li said in an interview with the station, the recent strict control of the movement of people, mainly because of fear of the spread of the epidemic to Beijing, he believes that the epidemic in Beijing is under control: “more and more strict, monitoring is also more and more. Over in Hebei, if there is an epidemic, it’s all blocked off and not allowed to go in or out.”
In addition, 36 new cases of asymptomatic infection were reported in Heilongjiang province, including 12 new cases in Qiqihar, and residents in some areas are worried about a lack of food and are snapping up food.
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