China locked the city of 4.5 million people in Southeast Province Fujian after detecting a dozen Coronavirus cases, efforts to once again stop the Delta outbreak and maintain strict zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19.
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All housing compounds and villages are closed, while recreational places in tourist cinemas – including cinemas, bars, gyms and libraries – stop operations, said city officials at a press conference on Monday night.
The latest outbreak, which has not fled Fujian province, including 103 cases in three cities so far.
The first case was detected in two students from local schools through routine testing.
Their father, who returned from abroad in early August, was also infected and was considered a possibility of origin.
Coronavirus: Live Update Wave comes less than a month after China against the most extensive outbreak in the country since the virus first appeared in Wuhan.
Quick and furious steps taken by local authorities reflect the difficulties of containing more transmitting Delta variants and Chinese escalation needs to be done to maintain the status of zero covid.
Experts from the National Health Team said they saw “Spillover’s risk” in the latest outbreak.
Putian, the city in the center of the plague is currently in the “Tangguh and complicated” situation, officials, with housing compounds, schools and factories tend to find more cases.
About 30,000 people have left Putian for other provinces since the end of August, even though there are no external cases found, according to local media reports.
Starting on Tuesday, all kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools in Xiamen will be closed, and students have been asked to attend online classes.
The city distance bus station suspends all routes to other provinces to reduce the risk of transmission.
Some parts of Xiamen have initiated mass testing, and a local authority plan to launch city testing, according to Deputy Mayor of Liao Huasheng.