Beijing Daxing District Rong Hui community upgraded to a high-risk area, a number of neighborhoods have been closed to management. (Video screenshot)
Cluster outbreak involving 7 families in Daxing, Beijing with mutated strain. The Daxing Ronghui community was upgraded to a high-risk area. However, private accounts of the source of the infection in Daxing differ from the official ones.
On Jan. 20, an outbreak news conference in Beijing said the virus carried by the two confirmed cases in Daxing on Jan. 17 was a more contagious British mutant strain. the number of confirmed local cases on Jan. 19 increased significantly, with 90 percent of the cases being residents of the Ronghui community on Tiangongyuan Street in Daxing District; the rest were residents of Nanxinzhuangdu Village in Beishu Town, Shunyi District, colleagues of the confirmed cases.
Officials acknowledged that from January 17 to January 19, there was an aggregated outbreak in Daxing District, spreading successively among families, colleagues, neighbors and friends, with three families having an aggregated outbreak involving seven families. The community of Ronghui, Tiangongyuan Street, Daxing District, was transferred to a high-risk area.
Ms. Zhang told the Epoch Times that there were two cases in the Daxing area, and then the village closed the village, and all the entrances were not allowed to enter or leave the village for access cards. The village can only leave a road entrance into the village and out of the village, but also do not allow the string of doors.
“Working outside, this year’s New Year are not back, my niece in the Shunyi District side of the Epidemic is quite serious, they also closed the village, are not allowed out, supermarkets and everything is closed.” Ms. Zhang said.
Beijingers: source or from previously confirmed cases
In response to the spread of the epidemic in Daxing, Ms. Wu of Beijing told the Epoch Times that Daxing housing is cheap and easily accessible, and that people who work in Zhongguancun and live in Daxing have to take the No. 4 subway. That line had previously had a confirmed case, a Hebei native, is working in Sogou, often take the subway. At that Time, the official notification also said that it was possible to cause the spread of Haidian, Zhongguancun and Daxing. She suspected that the epidemic is thus spread open.
She also said that Daxing has also built an international airport, and there are many development zones that are also high-tech zones with very high employment rates, and college students gather in areas that are basically foreign populations.
But after Beijing’s closure, she described the streets now as “just like during the Beijing Sas in 2003, with fewer people, fewer cars, and especially quiet.”
Ms. Wu describes how Beijing is now very tightly controlled and has many concentrated segregated locations. For example, the former streets factories are converted into hotels, in addition to Beijing also has a lot of schools, students are on vacation, you can quickly turn the classroom into isolated rooms.
Beijing is surrounded by Hebei dishes rose very much
Ms. Wu introduced, the whole Beijing eat vegetables from Hebei and Shandong, now Hebei epidemic is serious, many places are closed, other places can not be transported in the vegetable prices rose very strongly.
She cited examples, such as tofu are up to 4 yuan a piece; onions the other day 3 yuan a catty, now 9 yuan; vegetables such as green vegetables are doubled up. Pork has become even more expensive, rising to more than forty dollars a catty.
“Now the Beijing government calls on everyone to eat potatoes, radishes, cabbage. Because these three things rose more smoothly, not much, more storage, cabbage 2, 3 pieces or so.” She said.
Ms. Wu said that Beijing, as the capital, has a very well-developed community control mechanism, such as a building chief in a building and a dean in a compound, who are usually the eyes of the government and monitor the people. In times of isolation, these building chiefs and deans are responsible for contacting the outside world, the community, ordering Food deliveries and such.
Will the Beijing Winter Olympics still be held as scheduled?
The official announcement by the Chinese Communist Party that the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan virus, New Crown virus) in Daxing is a more transmissible mutant strain is of considerable concern to the outside world. While Beijing authorities are preparing to hold the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games from February 4 to 20, 2022, it was also officially reported on January 20 that Xi Jinping was visiting Beijing and Hebei and hosting a briefing on the preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Meanwhile, a new wave of the outbreak continues to worsen in Hebei province, Beijing’s closest neighbor, with three high-risk areas now in Hebei.
Many netizens on social media focused on the epidemic in Beijing and Hebei, worrying that hosting the Winter Olympics under such circumstances would increase the spread of the epidemic.
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