Beijing extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing Monday as cases of COVID-19 rose in the Chinese capital.
Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of citizens have been under varying degrees of lockdown for two months.
Beijing on Monday reported an uptick in new cases to 99, up from a previous daily average of around 50. Two more districts, Shijingshan and Haidian, began a work-from-home policy this week, bringing the total to six. In cases where people need to go to their offices, the number of workers is limited to 30% of the normal level.
Nationwide, China reported 802 new cases Monday, marking a steady decline interrupted only by small-scale localized outbreaks. Despite that, the government has hewed to strict quarantine, lockdown and testing measures under its “zero-COVID” approach, even while the outside world is opening up.
About 550 of the new cases were in Shanghai, where restrictions are only gradually being eased. The city reopened four of its 20 subway lines on Sunday, with trains operating on a reduced schedule of every 20 minutes from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The number of new cases in China’s largest city has fallen under 1,000 for eight days in a row, but outbreaks could still come back in some areas, said Lei Zhenglong, the deputy chief of disease control and prevention at the National Health Commission.
A reopening of transport links out of Shanghai has created an exodus of migrant workers and others who were trapped by the lockdown. Among those who remain, some have been issued exit passes to leave their residential compounds or neighborhoods for a limited time for shopping or walks, while others remain restricted to their buildings.
(AP)
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They should turn off the 5G that causes ‘covid symptoms’ – essentially covid is radiation blood poisoning. They also have to provide organic and non-pesticide produce to their citizenry which helps maintain a healthy immune system.
Whether they will or not is another issue. They are not really interested in their citizens or their health – but the rest of us should take note. The globalist ‘lockdown’ agendas are not potentially far away from us again here in the West, along with attempted decreeing for unproven ‘vaccine mandates’, quarantines, and the uber-rich then buying up deeply discounted real estate from failed businesses. The false PCR test is also a tool for this tyranny – it is a computer-based tool that has no actual basis in diagnosis, as the covid ‘virus’ has not actually been isolated – and cannot be diagnosed – except with false diagnostic tools that are nothing but political weaponry for tyranny.