As the Chinese New Year approaches, the Communist Party of China (CPC) virus (New Coronavirus) epidemic is making a comeback, with Shijiazhuang, where the epidemic is most severe, having declared a city closure and causing major traffic jams due to restrictions on vehicles entering Beijing. In addition to this, the Communist Party’s State Council and various localities have issued initiatives urging people to spend New Year’s Eve as locally as possible.
Every year around New Year’s, billions of people return to their hometowns across China. This year’s wave will begin on Jan. 28 and end on March 8. The sudden escalation of the epidemic in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and other places has cast a shadow over this year’s homecoming.
Shijiazhuang “closed city” Hebei vehicles restricted to Beijing
A new round of pneumonia in Hebei is spreading rapidly. According to official data, 120 new people were infected in Hebei province on the 6th (51 confirmed cases and 69 so-called “asymptomatic infections”). Of these, Shijiazhuang, the center of the outbreak, has 117 infections (50 confirmed and 67 “asymptomatic”).
Shijiazhuang Vice Mayor Meng Xianghong announced on Thursday (7) that people and vehicles in Shijiazhuang are not allowed to leave the city, and people and vehicles in the high-risk area of Gaocheng District are not allowed to leave the district.
She also said that all five hospitals in Shijiazhuang have now been vacated to treat patients with the CCP virus. In addition, the Hebei Chest Hospital, Shijiazhuang People’s Hospital and Shijiazhuang Third Hospital will serve as back-up hospitals.
On January 7, Shijiazhuang Railway Station completely suspended the sale of passenger tickets to the public and advised people entering the station to prepare to go out. several airlines cancelled flights to Shijiazhuang Airport on January 7.
In addition to the city closure in Shijiazhuang, news of city closure was also reported in Wei County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, where another outbreak occurred.
In addition, the sale of train tickets from Handan and Xingtai to Beijing has been stopped.
Traffic jam into Beijing “8 hours of motionlessness”
Zhuo City, Hebei, which is only 55 kilometers away from Hebei, issued a notice on the 7th, asking the public not to enter Beijing for non-essential purposes. Non-commuters in Hebei Province who really need to enter Beijing must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours before arriving in Beijing, and strictly comply with the provisions of the capital’s epidemic prevention and control policy.
Commuters from Hebei’s Beijing Rim can commute normally with proof of residence in the Beijing Rim, proof of employment in Beijing, and proof of negative nucleic acid testing within 14 days (recent first-time commuters must have proof of negative nucleic acid testing within 72 hours).
Because of the sudden requirement for Beijing-ring commuters to hold proof of nucleic acid to enter Beijing, many commuters were not prepared and were forced to return. Numerous netizens responded that from the morning of the 7th, the routes into Beijing in Yanjiao, Dazhuang, Langfang and other places were jammed with traffic.
Netizen “Liu Xuepeng – performance equipment rental” posted: “Dagang Expressway into Beijing direction blocked for more than 8 hours, not moving.”
The authorities suddenly require commuters around Beijing to hold a nucleic acid certificate to enter Beijing. (Weibo)
On the 7th, the entry into Beijing was blocked, causing a big traffic jam. (Weibo)
On the 7th, a big traffic jam on the route into Beijing. (Weibo)
Netizen: “The Dagang Expressway into Beijing direction has been blocked for more than 8 hours, and it’s not moving.” (microblogging)
The route into Beijing is blocked by police cars. (Weibo)
Authorities around the Communist Party of China advocate “spending New Year’s Eve in place”
The State Council of the Communist Party of China has proposed to encourage enterprises and institutions to flexibly arrange vacations and guide employees to take their vacations at their workplaces during the Chinese New Year. Beijing, Shanghai, Ningxia, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hebei, Guangxi and other places have also issued initiatives to encourage “spending New Year’s Eve locally”.
Beijing to “non-essential not out of Beijing, non-essential not out of the country” as a slogan, requiring people currently in Beijing to stay in the local New Year, the party and government cadres should take the lead in Beijing for the holiday, really need to leave Beijing to strict approval management.
Zhuo City, Hebei, which is only 55 kilometers away from Hebei, requires that the inter-provincial flow of the Beijing-Hebei area be reduced, and the general public is not necessary to enter Beijing. Non-commuters in Hebei Province who really need to enter Beijing must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours before arrival in Beijing, and strictly comply with the provisions of the capital’s epidemic prevention and control policies.
Shanghai, the largest city in the country, encourages “staggered return to work”. If you must travel across the region, be sure to know the local epidemic situation and prevention and control policies in advance, and hold off on travel to medium and high-risk areas.
Shenzhen, which has a large foreign population, has also issued a notice that civil servants, institutions and employees of state-owned enterprises must apply to leave Shenzhen during the Chinese New Year, while other companies will try to stagger their holidays.
Anhui, Sichuan, Hunan and other major labor exporting provinces have also recently issued notices requiring “no return home unless necessary”.
Enterprises in Ningbo and Xiamen issue bonus or subsidies for employees to encourage them to return home after the holiday.
For people returning home from overseas and medium to high-risk areas, localities have also required nucleic acid testing and isolation. Some local governments in Henan proposed that these people should report to their jurisdictions in advance to do the trip, the implementation of nucleic acid testing and 14 days of centralized isolation measures.
The city of Baoding in Hebei also issued the latest notice on the 7th, nearly 14 days, high-risk areas, the province’s medium-risk areas in the county (city, district) (currently Shijiazhuang Gaocheng District, Xingtai Nangong City) to return to the insurance people are concentrated quarantine 14 days, nucleic acid testing three times.
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