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China's Hainan Expands COVID-19 Lockdowns to More Areas to Quell Outbreak
Channel News Asia ^ | 08 Aug 2022

Posted on 08/07/2022 10:14:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

China's Hainan, an island province dependent on tourism, locked down more areas on Monday (Aug 8), Reuters calculations based on state media reports show, as it battles its worst COVID-19 outbreak after seeing very few cases over the past two years.

The island in the South China Sea, which recorded just two local symptomatic COVID-19 cases last year, has reported more than 1,400 domestically transmitted infections this month, including 982 symptomatic ones. Although that is small by global standards, it is the province's biggest outbreak since the virus was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.

The sharp increase in cases comes amid a pick-up in interest in tourism after China slightly eased curbs aimed at domestic travel, accounting for the shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant, which facilitates a shorter quarantine time.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; china; covid19

1 posted on 08/07/2022 10:14:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

CCP clowns are ruining China, weakening China right when they want to invade Taiwan and invade TSMC......This Chinese fire drill brought to you by Clown Xi and clown CCP


2 posted on 08/07/2022 10:18:07 PM PDT by dennisw
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In 2012, China had 19 million births. Last year, it was 10 million births. Quite a steep drop. There will be no one to support their aging population.


3 posted on 08/07/2022 10:20:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

It’s to get everyone in the system with the app.

If it is red they must stay home.

The people who had their money stolen from their banks all coincidentally turned red when they began publicly protesting.

ChiComs have to be able to quell any dissent or unrest.


4 posted on 08/07/2022 10:20:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

CCP idiots should lock down all of China and weld the doors shut on all apartment buildings

Until the Kung Flu is knocked out once and for all.


5 posted on 08/07/2022 10:24:07 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: nickcarraway

What is that definition of insanity with “more of the same?”


6 posted on 08/07/2022 10:26:30 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Clearly they are in need of CCO aka Kung Flu on steroids.

/s


7 posted on 08/07/2022 10:27:39 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

To put the best construction on this:

1) The ChiCom subjects don’t “test” until they are really sick.

2) The ChiCom subjects are subjected to a far more specific and accurate test than the junk they peddle globally.


8 posted on 08/07/2022 10:30:45 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: dennisw

Socialism always ends up becoming violent when they have run out of time. Their actions my be indicating this.


9 posted on 08/07/2022 11:26:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: nickcarraway

What they are really ‘quelling’ is the runs on the banks.....


10 posted on 08/08/2022 12:28:53 AM PDT by cranked
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wow. Do you have a citation on that?


11 posted on 08/08/2022 12:44:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I hope they have air conditioning where they are locked down.
August in Hainan is brutal; very hot and VERY humid like nowhere else in China.

Never been there but this is what I was told by an ex-Chinese Hainanian(?) who was then a Singapore citizen.


12 posted on 08/08/2022 2:54:00 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: nickcarraway

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13 posted on 08/08/2022 3:36:57 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: nickcarraway

On April 1, 2001, a Chinese air force jet collided with a US Navy EP-3 Aries in international airspace with 24 crewmen aboard and was forced to land on Hainan Island and were detained for tens days. I’m fortunate to be acquainted with one of these brave aircrew. The Chinese pilot responsible for the collision presumably died. The point of this discussion is I don’t really care anything about either the island or its inhabitants.


14 posted on 08/08/2022 5:37:56 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: ifinnegan

Xi is going for all the power.
He must crush dissent


15 posted on 08/08/2022 5:47:18 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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China's Population Crisis Worsen: From One to Two and More Child Policy

Run time 10:14

16 posted on 08/08/2022 7:02:29 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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