10 days after the announcement of the central government’s ‘precision quarantine’ guidelines, an unprecedented diffusion
The number of new corona19 infections in Beijing, China recorded 1,000 for two days in a row, and an emergency was placed in “capital quarantine”.
According to the National Health Commission (Wiganyu) on the 23rd, there were 1,426 new infections in the community on the 21st and 1,476 on the 22nd in Beijing.
Even when the quarantine was tightened, such as the massive telecommuting system in May and June, there were fewer than 100 people a day, so Beijing was facing the worst situation since the Corona 19 outbreak.
Currently, many elementary, middle and high school classes in Beijing have been moved online, and major parks, including Chaoyang Park, have been closed.
Restaurants in major areas of the city are temporarily closed or are only accepting deliveries and takeout orders.
In addition, since the 24th, the Beijing quarantine authorities have said that a negative PCR (genetic amplification) test certificate issued within 48 hours is required to enter public institutions, state-owned enterprises, general companies, markets, shops, restaurants, etc. , or use public transport such as buses and subways announced the day before.
Subsequently, on the 23rd, the Beijing quarantine authorities further ordered all public and private units in the city to strengthen employee movement management, further lower the attendance rate, and reduce meetings and offline meetings.
As a result, the area around Jianguomen Avenue in Chaoyang-gu, where Beijing’s office buildings are concentrated, was quiet throughout the day, including rush hours, and most of the buses during the day were empty .
Beijing quarantine authorities have been operating nursing homes and childcare institutions in a closed loop (controlling staff access) and have recommended that citizens be vaccinated promptly, including booster shots.
These guidelines were “warning” in form, but when the quarantine situation is severe, as in recent years, the “warning” is usually implemented in accordance with government guidelines.
Lockdown measures for apartments with infected people and close contacts are currently being implemented one after another in various areas of Chaoyang District, including Wangjing, an area where many Koreans live in Beijing.
The Beijing Daily reported the same day that Beijing has begun using a 10,000-bed isolation treatment facility in the new China International Exhibition Center building in Shunyi District.
In addition, the organizers announced that the “Zhongguancun Forum”, a large-scale science and technology event scheduled to be held jointly by China’s central government and the Beijing municipal government on the 25th, will be postponed until next year.
Since the central government announced guidelines on the 11th to refrain from indiscriminate quarantine and implement precise quarantine, the number of infected people in Beijing has increased rapidly, and the quarantine authorities appear to be having difficulty responding.
Instead of the previous method of officially announcing measures such as teleworking on a massive scale, Beijing authorities are quietly encouraging the implementation of frontline-intensive quarantine measures.
This is being interpreted not to give the impression that the quarantine is reverting to before the central government guidelines were announced.
/yunhap news
