Posted on 03/14/2022 6:03:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
China on March 13 placed two more cities under lockdown, including its southern business center of Shenzhen, amid a fresh spike of COVID-19 cases across the country fueled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
The new restrictions came after the country’s leader Xi Jinping and health experts signaled the communist regime might switch to a softer COVID-19 response model.
The Chinese regime currently has a so-called “dynamic-zero” policy that attempts to bring outbreaks under control as soon as possible through measures including mass testing, digital surveillance, mandatory isolation, and targeted lockdowns. Critics say such harsh measures hurt the economy and send ripples through global supply chains.
Despite stringent control efforts, domestic infections continue to surge in recent days. China reported 1,807 confirmed local infections on Sunday, more than triple the 476 the previous day. The National Health Commission also announced 1,315 asymptomatic local cases, which the country didn’t classify as confirmed cases.
The cases reported on Sunday were scattered in 19 of the country’s 31 provinces.
While China’s current case count is likely not to reflect the actual total, given that the Chinese regime is known to grossly underreport its virus numbers, the official figure is climbing at the rate that the county has never seen since the first outbreak in Wuhan two years ago.
Residents in a locked-down community look out from a closed gate as a worker in protective gear monitors access on March 13, 2022, in Beijing. (Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
The flare-up prompted officials in several Chinese cities to step up efforts. Cangzhou, a city south of Beijing, announced a lockdown of its 7 million residents on Sunday. The city authorities said no one was allowed to leave home, according to a notice posted on its official Wechat account.
Shenzhen, a city with 17.5 million people, will be placed under a week-long lockdown while conducting three rounds of citywide testing starting from March 14, according to a Sunday government notice.
The southern tech hub that hosts the country’s tech giants like Tencent and Huawei orders all businesses except those in essential sectors to close or work from home. The city will suspend public transport including buses and subways, read the notice.
In the financial hub of Shanghai, the inter-city bus service will be halted from March 14. The city authorities have ordered its 24 million residents not to leave unless necessary. Anyone entering or leaving the financial hub must present a negative PCR test result.
Jilin Province, where infections accounted for nearly 80 percent of the national total, is stepping up COVID control measures, according to Zhang Yan, deputy director of the provincial Health Commission.
The outbreak reflects “emergency response mechanisms in some areas are not sound enough,” Zhang said at Sunday’s news briefing.
Two cities in Jilin Province have been placed under lockdown since March 11. Changchun city gave its 9 million residents a stay-at-home order, with one household permitted to send one person out to buy necessities every two days. The nearby city of Jilin has been placed under regional lockdown.
Jilin, a city that bears the same name as the surrounding province, is rolling out the seventh round of mass testing of its 3.6 million people on Sunday.
While the city hasn’t announced a citywide lockdown, the authorities send people who received positive results and their close contacts to centralized quarantine centers.
The city is scrambling to complete the construction of an isolation facility with 6,000 rooms, as well as three makeshift hospitals with 10,000 beds for COVID-19 patients, the state-aligned news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. Jilin has built three temporary hospitals with 1,200 beds to deal with patients with mild or no symptoms, stated the report.
Residents line up for coronavirus screening during a COVID-19 lockdown in Changchun in northeastern China’s Jilin province on March 12, 2022. (Chinatopix Via AP) The mayors of Jilin city and Jiutai district in Changchun city were dismissed without specifying reasons, Xinhua reported.
Six Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, including a deputy chief of provincial public security department, were removed from their roles due to the regional outbreak in Dongguan, a nearby city of Shenzhen, the Party-owned China Daily announced on Sunday.
Officials should “resolutely hold the bottom line of avoiding large-scale resurgence,” Sun Chunlan, China’s vice premier, said on March 12.
Sun urged local authorities to stem regional clusters as quickly as they can, in preparation for the CCP’s 20th Party Congress this year.
Top CCP officials will gather to hold the twice-a-decade Party Congress in October or November, during which a new group of top leaders will be chosen. Party leader Xi is seeking an unprecedented third five-year term in office after becoming a paramount leader in 2012.
Dorothy Li is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in Europe.
Here we go again.
Test going well for ccp mass murderers, kills millions, ready for release to the world
They better get those bats under control.
Where’s Fauxi?
Did they send the evil little gnome back to China to cook up this new concoction just in time for the mid-terms?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
The lie like the devil. Who in their right mind believes there were only 1,807 cases in a city of 17 million and that is why they are locking down.
Here is my thoughts. We often disagree but I think that allows us to refine our ideas.
We know there omicron likely evades previous immunity. Natural or vaccinated. I agree natural immunity is superior to artificial. Is it likely omicron has probably circulated back to China and is now going through the population?
The numbers are obviously false and there is a total dictatorial snd tyrannical response. But is this omicron coming home to roost? There is no variant on the horizon? The last couple years there has always been a variant on the horizon. Not presently. That supports omicron being the natural vaccine.
What say you?
Maybe they “over isolated” and now people are getting this mild flu? Who knows, the information out of China is as good as the information the domestic media provides, worthless.
Nope…..here THEY go, again.
Looks like their $hots are just as/even MORE effective as the PfizzerModeRNA ones are.
Didn’t he test positive too? Thought I heard or read he did.
Getting bad in Germany as well. Worldwide cases, after a dramatic downturn, have started going up again. Getting ready for midterms and vote by mail?
I hope the chinese stay the course, they have Jacinda to offer her whole hearted support.....
Science challenged media fear porn blitz starting in 3-2-1...
Wow, we then get a double feature: Russia and COVID.
They’re trying, they’re trying.
Call me when we get those guillotines built.
Response to US steering clear to the inevitable ground surge in the Uke/Rus ground escalation. Burden gets china to back off a bit and china provides justification for the mail in votes to screw with our upcoming elections
Vote by burner phone!
Will be back here just in time for mid-terms!
Germany, as of 14 March 2022,
125,596 deaths over about 27 months
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/germany
Population of Germany: 84,233,236
( 125,596 official Covid deaths / 84,233,236 Germans ) x 100 = 0.149 % mortality over 27 months.
"Getting bad in Germany?" Not compared to the US under Fauci, Collins and Walensky at about 0.29 %.
One observes that 0.29% mortality in the US is also over 27 months, so the "officials" and their "official" data show not so much of a hysterical "event" as the "event" managers wish to be seen,
It is likely that Communist China wants the West to again lockdown their economies, by playing the "monkey see, monkey do" game. It worked the last time, after all. Economic warfare via imagery and media amplification.
Until Communist China reports similar mortality results -- 0.29 % mortality rate in the US after 26 months -- and therefore about 406,000,000 Covid deaths in a population of about 1.4 billion, their data cannot be anything but bogus. And their "media" imagery all about stoking hysteria. In the West.
The proponents of the pandemic expect people to be innumerate. And many are.
The latest "data" from Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center says China has "8,629" deaths. Not 406,000,000.
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
We're been played. We're being played again. So?
Lockdown! Lockdown! Lockdown! Lockdown! Test! Test! Test!
After all, how can we know we're sick if we don't consult the Commmies?
I still won’t be complying
Just in time for the 2022 election
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