For the past three months, the term was hardly used anymore as in the past. It is now again in the present. Beijing is “in war” against the Covid-19. We take measures “as in time of war “ announced, Saturday, June 13, officials of the district of Fengtai. It is in this district located at the south-west of the chinese capital as a new cluster appeared last week, around the wholesale market for meat and vegetables Xinfadi. The city “is input in an extraordinary time “, she said on Sunday, a spokesman for the town hall.
A new case announced on Thursday, June 11 − a man in his fifties who had gone to the market eight days earlier, six other cases Friday, thirty-six Saturday, eight Sunday, thirty-six on Monday… After fifty-six days without a new case, the alarm clock is painful for Beijing.
A sign that the situation was supposed to be back to normal, the schools were in turn re-open their doors this Monday, 15 June, completing a recovery school that had started on 27 April for final year students. As soon as Friday, the parents were informed that the reentry of the small was again postponed. “The dream of every child, to spend a holiday of winter directly to summer with no return to school is carried out “, joke a few users. Among the greatest, the students will take an exam, end-of-cycle this summer should be fifteen days in quarantine prior to the date of the examination.
Crisis management is a highly political
Impressive police forces were deployed on the eve of the weekend around the huge market, Xinfadi, a surface area of approximately 100 hectares that has been closed, as well as five other markets around Beijing. In the capital, in smaller markets remain open but it seems that meat and fresh fish have disappeared from the stalls. According to the authorities, more than 76 000 people have been tested. Around the market, a dozen residential complexes have been confined.
Even though Beijing is huge – about 150 times the size of Paris − throughout the city, posters have made their appearance : any person who has been to Xinfadi these past two weeks must be reported to the authorities, under penalty of prosecution. The precise origin of the virus remains unknown but, on Sunday, on the chain of State television CCTV, Yang Peng, a researcher has shown that these are all from “probably” of meat or seafood “imported from Europe “.
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