Posted on 12/23/2021 6:53:03 PM PST by BusterDog
BEIJING, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Rising COVID-19 infections in China's city of Xian have spurred a lockdown of its 13 million residents, with stretches of highway eerily bare on Thursday, as many people queued in the cold to get their noses swabbed at testing sites.
The daily count of domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms in the northwestern city, famed for its terracotta warriors buried with China's first emperor, has increased for six straight days since Dec. 17.
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The Reuters title hides the size of the outbreak with ‘mln’
Who abbreviates million ???
That’s a whopping .0093 of their total population.
“Who abbreviates million ???”
*****
I don’t know, maybe Euro dorks.
What interests me is why lockdown this huge city now? 13MM people? That’s over 1.5 x’s the size of NYC.
You don’t lock down a huge city like that over Omicron, especially with the Olympics coming to town.
What’s up with this? It’s odd.
13 million people locked down.
Chinese Bosses: So what? We have billions to spare over here.
Political Science “Theater”.
New variant outbreak much more powerful than before found in Xi'an China https://t.co/pGfjCR1nil— 書滅蝗蛾续集 (@jUiKpfx0RkIbFJQ) December 20, 2021
China. Ugh. Hate that word now.
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