Another Wuhan? Northeast Tonghua homes are sealed and residents are deprived of food and medicine

The city of Tonghua in China’s Jilin province has implemented severe quarantine measures due to the Epidemic, sealing off the city and households, with residents screaming about being cut off from Food and Medicine.

Tonghua City, Jilin Province, China, has taken categorical measures due to the epidemic, sealing off the city and households, with every household being sealed off, many people have no reserves of food, no one is delivering online orders, and many residents are screaming that they are facing food and medicine cuts, crying out for help! The authorities were forced to come out on the 24th to apologize.

Tonghua City ordered on the 18th, communities, villages to implement closed management, strict traffic control, in addition to the transport of essential supplies, vehicles are strictly prohibited from entering the city, etc., but netizens revealed that from Tonghua 12 found the first confirmed case, it began to seal households one after another to seal the city, many people have been shut at Home for two weeks.

Some residents left comments online, saying “I can understand the situation of people in Wuhan at the beginning of the miles, now I feel no one to manage, self-perpetuating”.

The article, entitled “400,000 people in the northeastern city of 200+ confirmed, emergency closure of the city facing a food cut, can give a hot search”, said that so far, the city is closed, at least 30,000 people are quarantined, and every household was sealed. Now, there is no official word on how many people have been sealed off in their homes.

How far has the blockade gone? A resident posted: “Our entire neighborhood and the building, the home security door all stickers seal, there are people guarding the lower side, simply can not get out …… home things are almost finished, the upstairs residents have been eating noodles mixed with sauce every day, the community calls do not answer, before the closure of the community eggs rose to seven dollars a catty, Tonghua White Mountain’s hotel was all requisitioned for isolated use.”

Another complained, “Please please pay attention to the problems of our Jilin Tonghua, sealed households before the closure of the community for a long Time, everyone home surplus are almost gone …… community, property calls who do not care, said the good volunteers to send food also did not implement, the government said the community to send food also did not send, opened five or six epidemic hotline a can not be reached ……”

One resident said, “This small city of only 360,000 people, there have been more than 200 confirmed, more than 30,000 people were quarantined, the situation is no less than Wuhan last year! It won’t work to rely on the people of the small town alone to solve the problem, we need everyone’s help! Please.”

The citizen of Tonghua, signed Yang Xiaofat, said she was eight months pregnant and was blocked from getting help, and no one in the community was in charge. The citizen said she easily did not want to disturb others, “but late pregnancy really often woke up hungry.”

People’s Daily 23 microblogging that Tonghua will provide residents with free essential goods delivery services, the result, more than 2,000 comments under the microblogging are local people complaining, some said the Family has been cut off food, online a lot of complaints. It is said that the emergency lack of front-line staff, many have been extremely overdrawn.

A resident said: “I am a resident of F8 building unit 901, I have not eaten for two days, and now I am dying of hunger, please ask me if there is any bread, or instant noodles or something near me, can you give me some through the window, give money, I am really dying of hunger”.

There is also a netizen said: “Parents home food what is not …… ordered vegetables today the government and stop distribution, some families are referred to the universal sealing of the city before the seal was posted isolated, ten days really no food.”

Sealing the city to seal households brought not only the threat of food cuts, but also the serious problem of the elderly who are too sick to be treated, signed by Tonghua Xiu Xian said, “We Tonghua people were not beaten by the virus, but now the livelihood issues are not solved, beaten by hunger and basic diseases! 300,000 people have no food to eat, young people can drink water at home to live! But how can our elderly parents make a living? High blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes patients have no daily medicine to eat, to the most humble gesture to ask the world: Who will save us ah?

Until the evening of the 23rd, the official issued a notice “on the provision of free delivery services for the majority of residents of the necessities of Life“, referring to the volunteers will help to purchase delivery services. However, local residents continued to complain, and the emergency situation of food shortage was not relieved.

After the local residents’ news was disclosed online, Jilin Tonghua deputy mayor Jiang Haiyan expressed his “apology” on January 24, saying that “the distribution of people’s daily necessities was not timely and in place” due to the shortage of manpower.