in officers China’s southwestern city of Baise Residents have been ordered to stay at home and avoid unnecessary travel from Monday as they enforced the toughest restrictions in the country’s tool-box, AFP reports.
Outbreak in Bias with a population of about 3.6 million and borders Vietnam, is small by global standards, but the restrictions, including a ban on non-essential travel, follow a national guideline to prevent any flare-ups quickly.
The effort takes on additional urgency when staging the Winter Olympics, which began on Friday and runs through February 20, as well as a busy travel season leading up to the Lunar New Year holiday.
Dozens of athletes at the Games, hosted by the capital Beijing and the northern province of Hebei, have tested positive and gone into isolation, but the events have not been severely affected in the absence of a cluster’s spread in a closed loop that isolates them from the public. are.
Data from the National Health Commission show that twenty-two in the region of Guangxi reported 37 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms for Sunday.
State television cited a statement from the city government saying residents should stay indoors except to buy essentials or get tested for COVID-19, and opt for delivery rather than in-store purchases, whenever possible. should choose.
It has also suspended non-essential businesses, public transport and school sessions and delayed the opening of ports of entry at the international border. Essential workers will require special passes for movement within Bice.
including twenty-two China NHC data shows 45 locally transmitted cases were reported with symptoms for February 6, up from 13 a day earlier.
The southern province of Guangdong and the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin also reported sporadic local symptomatic cases for Sunday.
There were no new deaths, taking the death toll to 4,636.
As of February 6, mainland China had 106,419 confirmed cases with symptoms since the outbreak first emerged in late 2019, including local infections and those from overseas.
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