Residents must buy food through a metal fence after a blockade in Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Courtesy of volunteers
Hebei, Heilongjiang and Jilin reported on Tuesday (19) that 35, 27 and 43 new cases were confirmed in the previous day. Some villagers in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province, disclosed that almost all villagers in two local villages were infected, pointing out that the official diagnosis figures were far from the actual situation. In Hebei, authorities have blocked doors and kidnapped people to prevent residents from going out. As for Beijing, central leaders have raised their alert and are wearing masks again when they go out.
According to the official website of China’s National health Commission on Tuesday, 118 new confirmed cases were reported in 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps the previous day (18), with the top three in number being 43 in Jilin, 35 in Hebei and 27 in Heilongjiang.
The city of Tianjin, which has yet to announce the discovery of the outbreak, was closed this week after even residents returning from a night out were stopped outside the city. Ms. Liu, who lives in Beijing, told Radio Free Asia that some of her friends wanted to return to Tianjin, but were prevented from entering the city by guards.
They came back to Tianjin, but they were not allowed to enter the city, so they had no choice but to come back and go back to Beijing, which also did not allow them to enter.
Central government leaders have also raised their guard amid the seriousness of the epidemic. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, was in Beijing recently to inspect the preparations for the Winter Olympics. Photos from the site show Xi wearing a tightly fitting mask on almost all occasions, both indoors and outdoors, with officials and with the public, as well as with his fellow attendees. For the past six months, Xi has visited all provinces without a mask.
Black province’s release of epidemic data questioned
The new wave of outbreaks is mainly in rural areas. But the Heilongjiang provincial government has left many questions about the number of confirmed cases and infected people in the public domain. A villager surnamed Sun from Wangkui County in the province disclosed that villagers from two local villages were relocated and quarantined, and all livestock in the villages were buried deep.
The villagers of Wangkui County surnamed Sun said: all the people of the two villages were infected, only two families were left uninfected, the nucleic acid test was negative. The rest of the people were not spared, all infected. Now all unified quarantine, yesterday went to 10 buses, (the people) pulled to Wang County 2, unified quarantine. Today, all the livestock in the village were killed and buried deep afterwards.
To prevent the spread of the epidemic, on Monday (18), Suihua City to deal with the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic work command issued a notice on the award reporting. For reporting centralized and home quarantine personnel who refuse to implement control measures such as isolation and observation, or privately evade isolation and observation, the reward is RMB 3,000 yuan.
Mr. Sun said: Suihua area mobilized more than three hundred people from the civil police to watch over the whole day, and disinfection trucks went to disinfection without interruption. All the livestock in these two villages were killed, finished with machines to dig resistance to deep burial.
A man hiding from isolation was tied to a tree
In Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, a man was tied to a tree by staff because he was avoiding quarantine. A short video of the scene shows that the tied person kept screaming: “Tie him well, this time you still go outside blind string swimming, tie him well.”
A resident of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, goes out and is tied to a tree by guards. (Video screenshot)
Shijiazhuang resident Tang Wenxiang, a resident of Beiyuan district, pointed out to the station that because they cannot go out of the district, many residents can only buy vegetables through the iron fence.
Tang Wenxiang said: vegetable sellers outside, residents inside, not allowed to go out, across the gate to buy food.
Since the outbreak of the new round of epidemic, Hebei Province has accumulated 800 local confirmed cases, Shijiazhuang has at least three officials for ineffective fight against the epidemic, such as dismissal from office.
A “King of Poison” infects 143 people in Jilin
The Jilin Provincial Health Commission announced that on Monday, 43 new cases of the new crown outbreak were reported, making it the province with the highest number of infections that day.
According to reports, a “super spreader” on January 5 to take the train from Heilongjiang Province into Jilin Tonghua City, resulting in 143 people infected, most of the infected people, no symptoms. The Jilin Provincial Health Commission informed that the spreader, a man surnamed Lin, is engaged in individual marketing profession, recently traveled to and from the provinces of Heilongjiang and Ji, a wide range of activities, contact with a large number of people, January 6 to 11, had in Gongzhuling City, Tonghua City, four times for the promotion of middle-aged and elderly people.
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