Millions of people are currently confined to their homes in China as the regime races to contain its largest COVID-19 outbreak in months, driven by the spread of the Delta variant. The surge has caused concerns about the efficacy of Chinese vaccines against the highly infectious strain.
Chinese health authorities have blamed the Delta variant for a rise in infections spanning 14 provinces and including Beijing. The recent outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, was first reported on July 20 in the eastern city of Nanjing, where nine airport workers were identified by routine tests.
On Aug. 2, the national health commission confirmed 43 fresh cases across the nation, pushing the total of infected numbers over 300 within 10 days. But this figure isn’t likely to reflect the true total, given the Chinese regime is known to grossly underreport its virus numbers.
“Don’t trust [the authorities’] announcement. Actually, we don’t believe it,” a Beijing citizen surnamed Wang told The Epoch Times on July 30.
The residential area where Wang lives has been under lockdown since July 28.
On Aug. 2, the Beijing authorities gave stay-at-home orders to hundreds of thousands of people in the Haidian District after a resident was found infected with the CCP virus that morning.
A resident surnamed Zhou confirmed to The Epoch Times on Aug. 2 that she was informed the residential area was locked down in the morning. She said residents are receiving nucleic acid tests, and suggested that the lockdown wouldn’t be lifted before several rounds of mass tests were completed.
Flights, trains, and buses have been canceled from areas in the capital where the CCP virus has been found, locking out tourists during the peak summer holiday travel season, despite the vast majority of the citizens having been inoculated with Chinese vaccines.