Chinese authorities in Beijing continued to step up measures against the Epidemic on Wednesday (Jan. 20) and launched an investigation into all people who have entered the country from abroad since Dec. 10. Beijing officials reported that the daily increase in the number of new coronavirus (CCP virus) infections rose to seven cases, the highest in more than three weeks. Some Beijing subway lines have been closed.
With the Chinese New Year approaching, the outbreak in Beijing and several Chinese provinces is getting worse, the worst moment since the peak of the plague last year.
The Beijing Daily, an organ of the Communist Party of China’s Beijing Municipal Committee, said the capital’s leading group on epidemic prevention and control met late Tuesday night and decided to ban everyone from leaving Beijing in principle and to undergo nucleic acid testing, as well as to impose area-wide controls on Tiangongyuan Street, the core area of the outbreak, to minimize the size of public gatherings and The load on rail and ground buses.
All stores, business buildings, hotels, cinemas, fitness facilities and other public places in the area are closed, and the location of the case and surrounding communities are strictly sealed off, with no entry or exit, and all isolated persons are not allowed to leave their homes. At the same Time, all people who have visited the local priority areas within the last 14 days must be under Home observation.
The provinces of Hebei, Jilin and Heilongjiang in northern China, where the outbreak is severe, have taken a variety of anti-epidemic measures, including city closures, travel bans, mass quarantines and mass nucleic acid testing.
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