Authorities take lockdown measures after an outbreak in a neighborhood in Shanghai’s Huangpu district.
The outbreak continues in northern and northeastern China and is spreading to central China provinces. In Shanghai, six new cases of indigenous Newcastle Pneumonia (CCP) were reported yesterday, and three cases were imported from abroad. Authorities are urgently locking down residential communities. China’s State Council has ordered a 14-day Home quarantine for those returning home, with some complaining about the 14-day quarantine for the Chinese New Year, which is only a 7-day holiday.
On Thursday (21), a new pneumonia outbreak, which has been active in northern China recently, suddenly broke out in a residential neighborhood in Shanghai. On the morning of that day, the area around Zhaotong Road in Huangpu District, central Shanghai, was suddenly cordoned off by dozens of Epidemic prevention personnel, and all residents were not allowed to enter or leave the district, and the surrounding stores were closed.
Video from the scene shows that the Zhaotong neighborhood in Huangpu District has been quarantined, with many residents doing nucleic acid tests and waiting in line to be sent to a hotel for isolation.
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Shanghai hospitals now closed for cases
Shanghai resident Ms. Cheng told the station that residents of the district where the outbreak occurred have been sent to the city’s hotels for isolation: “The residents are staying in hotels and are isolated and are now under control. The district where I live is very well controlled and there is no outbreak. Now you have to wear a mask when you go to the supermarket in Shanghai, you have to take your temperature and wear a mask when you go into the district, supermarket, and to the vegetable market.”
The Shanghai Municipal health Commission informed this Friday (22) that the city added six new confirmed local cases the day before and reported three other confirmed cases of imported New Coronary Pneumonia from abroad. This follows the official announcement this Wednesday that the three confirmed cases were Li Moumou, an outsourced logistician at the Cancer Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Zhou Moumou and Tian Moumou, a friend.
Shanghai Renji Hospital and Cancer Hospital, the entire hospital was closed due to someone infected with a new type of pneumonia. (Courtesy of volunteers/reporter Qiao Long)
Heilongjiang has many asymptomatic infections
In the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, where the epidemic is serious, authorities reported 47 new confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia this Thursday, including 35 cases in Wangkui County and 88 new asymptomatic infections. Jilin has 19 new confirmed local cases and 7 asymptomatic infections. In Hebei, there were 18 new cases and 3 asymptomatic cases.
The Tianjin municipal government, concerned about the spread of the epidemic from Hebei to the region, fenced off roads around the city on Monday and banned outsiders from entering. Ms. Tang, a resident of Tianjin, told the station that there was no outbreak in Tianjin: “Tianjin can be sure there are no cases, the day before yesterday, there were two cases in Daxing, Beijing, and Wangkui, Heilongjiang is very infected.”
Authorities took lockdown measures after an outbreak emerged in a neighborhood in Shanghai’s Huangpu District.
New quarantine measures disrupt people’s plans to return to their hometowns for reunions
Given the severity of the outbreak, China’s State Council issued an emergency directive this week requiring people returning to their hometowns to return with negative nucleic acid test results for the new coronavirus valid for seven days, and to implement 14 days of home health monitoring after returning, during which Time there will be no gathering or movement and nucleic acid testing will be conducted every seven days.
In response, many people complained that this year’s Spring Festival holiday 7 days holiday, but to return home to isolate people for 14 days, questioning the lack of time to reunite with their families. Ms. Wang, who lives in Beijing, said to this station, “so that no one can go home for the New Year, 7 days holiday you go home to isolate, you have to spend money, to Shenyang and Dalian trains are gone, who can not return home this year, even if you go home, to the doorstep will not let you enter, you have to isolate (14 days).”
This January was the worst period of the epidemic in China since last year’s Wuhan pneumonia outbreak, which broke out in northern cities, moved into the countryside and spread to other provinces through human-to-human transmission, with a recent outbreak in some communities in Shanghai and an unpredictable follow-up.
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