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The stringent restrictions are being imposed on nearly half a million people living in the province surrounding the capital Beijing, and are due to a new outbreak of coronary infection on Sunday. Authorities warn that the virus outbreak is still “serious and complicated”.
Since China largely got the spread of infection under control, hundreds of people have been infected in Beijing. In recent weeks, new cases have been discovered in neighboring Hebei Province.
Closed and checked
Health officials on Sunday stated that Anxin County, located about 150 kilometers from Beijing, will be “shut down and controlled” in the same way that Wuhan was earlier this year, writes BBC.
Wuhan, with its 11 million inhabitants, was then deployed strict quarantine. The city was closed for entry and exit, but foreign citizens were allowed to leave it.
Now the same rules are introduced in Anxin. It also means that one person from each family is allowed to go out once a day to buy necessary items such as food and medicine.
People who do not have a residential address in the area are now not allowed to enter buildings or visit villages in the province. Authorities warn that anyone who violates the rules will be punished by the police.
China has largely succeeded in reducing the number of new cases of infection through extensive testing and strict control.
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein / AP
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The shutdown happens after 14 new virus infections were reported in Beijing last day. Since mid-June, 311 cases have been detected and millions of residents have been tested.
Although this is a small number compared to the thousands of new infected ones USA or South America, China responds quickly to prevent any infection.
Fear of bloom
Before the last outbreak, 57 days had passed since the last reported new infections in the Chinese capital. Anxin stores have been supplying fish to the Xinfadi market, Xinhua State News Agency reports.
Anxin has reported 12 new cases of coronary infection, including 11 linked to Xinfadi, writes the Global Times newspaper.
The new cases in Beijing have heightened fears of a resurgence of the covid-19 virus in China.
Since mid-June, new infections have been largely confined to Beijing, plus some cases in Hebei. The rest of China has had only a few cases of infection from travelers returning from abroad.
Over 10 million have so far been infected, and a total of more than 500,000 have died after receiving the world-wide corona virus.
The virus was first discovered in Wuhan, China, just before the New Year. It spread quickly to surrounding countries. Now, virtually every country in the world is affected by the virus
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