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On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 2:45:59 AM UTC-8, slider wrote:
Up to 13 million people have been placed into lockdown in the city of Xi’an in China, as authorities move to clamp down on the community spread of Covid-19 after 127 infections were found in a second round of mass testing.
The snap lockdown on Thursday comes little over a month before Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympics.
All residents in Xi’an are barred from leaving their houses except to buy living necessities every other day or for emergencies, while travel to and from the city is suspended save for in exceptional circumstances requiring official approval. All non-essential businesses have also been closed.
Authorities issued an order late on Wednesday, according to the state news agency Xinhua. The vice-premier, Sun Chunlan, has travelled to the region
to oversee implementation of the lockdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases
Infections had spread to 14 districts in Xi’an – home to the world-famous
Terracotta Warriors - as of Wednesday. Community infections in the capital of Shaanxi province grew after an initial case was detected at a local university. Health workers began a third round of mass testing on
Thursday. State media has not reported what the variant of the infections
in Xi’an is.
The lockdown measures are some of the most severe since China locked down
11 million residents in Wuhan in early 2020, where the Covid-19 virus was first detected.
China reported 71 local cases on Thursday, 63 of which were in Xi’an.
The lockdown has separated family members with no notice. Some social
media users expressed fears and concerns for family members caught in the locked-down region.
“I haven’t been afraid of the epidemic for so long, but this time is different because my child is still in Xi’an,” one Weibo user wrote.
The sudden announcement set off scenes of panic-buying in the city ahead
of lockdown at midnight on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
The announcement on Wednesday gave no indication of how long the lockdown will last.
The snap lockdown comes amid fears of growing infections nationwide after cases linked to Xi’an were detected in five other regions, including Beijing to the north and Guangdong to the south, according to state media reports.
China, which is doggedly pursuing a “zero-Covid” approach to the virus, implements some of the world’s strictest measures in a bid to quell all infections, including strict travel restrictions, mass mandatory testing
and obligatory quarantine for close contacts. It has placed tens of thousands of people into mandatory quarantine in recent months in response to new infections.
### - they're right and they're doing it correctly too! this is what it TAKES and it'll probably work! omicron being sooo infectious you have to jump on it hard asap!
meanwhile heh, in the uk 1000's of omicron infections have now been detected, the numbers ALREADY far exceeding infections from ALL previous waves, and yet we ain't gonna be doing ANYTHING about it (virtually nada considering just how much more infectious omicron is) until the day AFTER xmas???
millions of people currently traveling all over the country for the
holiday + still shopping and going out to venues and bars like nada is happening!!! (clear shades of orwell here huh: people just keep-on keeping-on in a kinda twilight sleep etc...)
the point being that: WHATEVER it is omicron can possibly DO to people en-mass without restriction, is now DEFO gonna be clearly demonstrated
right here in the uk during the new year??
there's no possible escape from it now!
for the uk it's herd-immunity or... bust!
(how 'nice' to be part of such a 'big' experiment on people huh? not! even my canary's totally disgusted and has taken-up smoking lol, sarcasm folks, come on down :))))
hey tech support, what the fuck here? come on now man.
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