In December, the epidemic has been heating up across the mainland. Beijing authorities reported that after an imported case was confirmed on the 14th, there were two more “confirmed cases associated with the disease” on the 18th, and that the Dashanzi branch of the Hanting Hotel in Chaoyang District was classified as a medium-risk area, with the surrounding Dashanzi neighborhood and related stores all closed, and store owners said they suffered heavy losses.
According to official media reports, on the 18th, two more employees were diagnosed at the Jiuxianqiao store of the Qingfeng bakery in Beijing, which is adjacent to the Dashanzi store, and both of them are related to the imported case on the 14th. The imported case confirmed on the 14th was a Hong Kong man who had stayed at the Hanting Hotel Dashanzi in Chaoyang District after his quarantine period.
The new case 1, a female employee of Beijing Qingfeng Baozi Shop Jiuxianqiao, was a close contact of the imported case; case 2, a female, was a worker and dormitorymate of case 1, and was also a close contact of the imported case.
On December 15, the Hanting Hotel and all the stores on the first floor were closed, and on the morning of December 19, the Qingfeng bakery was also closed and cordoned off, with authorities guarding the entrance and placing a sign saying “no uninvolved persons allowed”.
In addition, more than a dozen restaurants and other stores on the street involved in the incident are closed, with seals on the door, while the Dashanzi district is also closed management.
The company’s owner, Mr. Li, told the Epoch Times that his store was closed on the 15th, and now the perimeter of the Hanting Hotel is nailed with railings and iron, leaving only one mouth guarded by personnel in protective clothing.
According to his understanding, the official notification of the confirmed man who returned from Hong Kong is a Jilin native, quarantined for fourteen days and then checked into the Hanting Hotel directly, he himself had no idea of being infected and was tested positive two days later.
“He went to Qingfeng baozi to eat the rice, in front of Yu Wenmiao (sound) ate the rice, and to the front of that there is a home advertising print a thing, and then to the front of the spicy hot food, and to the opposite supermarket shopping, and then these places all closed.”
Mr. Li said that the man infected another man (no official notice), the man has gone to the Dashanzi district inside the Jinkelong turned around, and a store selling clothes turned around, and then again these several stores (were) closed. Thousands of people living in the Dashanzi district also entered the closed management state.
The 19th Qingfeng bun store 2 employees to the place is also all closed, at the same time, all the people around the second nucleic acid test.
Mr. Li said: “Our side of the first (nucleic acid testing) is done at home. The second Dashanzi district inside all residents free voluntary, and then want to do it again.”
Beijing officials said at a press conference on the 19th that the Hanting Hotel Dashanzi in Chaoyang District (including the ground floor) will be classified as a medium-risk area, while the risk level in other areas of Beijing will remain unchanged. At the same time, they will take measures including closing all the ground floor shops in the medium-risk area, strict entry and exit registration and temperature testing of surrounding collective units, neighborhoods and service industry establishments, and in principle, people in the medium-risk area will not be allowed to leave Beijing.
Some people left messages on Weibo, expressing their dissatisfaction with the authorities’ wide-ranging restrictions. “Restricting tens of millions of people because of two people?” “It would take everyone to take to the streets and petition the government to be heard.”
There are also netizens pointing out that the official notification is worded awkwardly, “just do not say ‘local’, must be roundabout.” “First of all, this is a local case, what associated cases? It is not clear how the infection is not told, and there is no track of action!” “Is not the foreign import in closed-loop (closed) quarantine 14 days? How is the exposure?” “I am also curious as to why there are close contacts of imported cases from outside the country? Which one of you can explain?”
For his part, Mr. Lee said the infected people didn’t even go with the other stores on the first floor of the Hanting Hotel, and they all followed the bad luck and had to be closed for at least 14 days.
“In fact, we are the most innocent, next to the Hanting Hotel, the restaurant under this all closed, (the infected) did not go to our house, nor to these few restaurants.”
“Losses are heavy, their rent are very expensive, the cost of a day plus workers’ wages nearly 10,000 yuan, this once closed half a month, half a month will have to be 110,000, a month will be more than 300,000.”
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