Beijing: small numbers, but Tianjin’s main port may face Chinese local omikron outbreaks with any size, less than a month before the open winter Olympics in Beijing nearby.
State Broadcasters CCTV said the government had divided Tianjin and 14 million inhabitants to three levels of restrictions, starting with the locking area where people were not allowed to leave their homes at all.
In the control area, each household is allowed to have one family member going to buy food every day, while in the prevention area, people must remain in their closest environment.
Buses and trains from Tianjin to Beijing have been suspended and people are told not to leave the city unless they have an urgent business.
The city began mass testing from all its residents on Sunday after a group of 41 children and adults were tested positive for Covid-19, including at least two with Omicron variants.
Officials say the virus has been circulating so the number of cases can rise.
China has improved a strategy of strict tolerance in a runup to the Olympics, which is open 4.
Chinese capital is 115 kilometers (70 miles) northwest Tianjin and many people regularly travel back and forth by car or on the dry link rail that requires less time Of an hour.
Elsewhere, millions of people were locked up in their homes in Xi’an and Yuzhou, two farther cities but had a larger outbreaks to the Delta variant.
Xi’an residents have been under locking for more than two weeks, but the number of new cases in the city of 13 million fell to only 15 on Monday in a sign that restrictions could be removed immediately.
60 other cases reported Monday in Henan Province, two of which the Omicron variant was found in the city of Anyang and seemed to be brought from Tianjin by a student on December 28, the media outlet was reported.
The capital of Zhengzhou Province has conducted mass testing and closes his school.
24 other cases were reported in the city on Monday.
The first two cases confirmed in Tianjin were a 10-year-old girl and a 29-year-old woman working in the center after school.
Both are infected by the Omicron variant.
In further testing from close contact, the other 18 was tested positive and 767 was tested negatively on Saturday night.
Those infected include 15 students aged 8 to 13 years, members of the school center staff and four parents.
City testing must be completed for two days.
Tianjin has also closed several subway stations on two lines to try to prevent further deployment.
China has reported about a dozen cases of omicrons before, most of the people who have arrived from abroad and isolated.
In one case in mid-December, the infection was not detected until after the person completed two weeks of quarantine, and spread to several close contacts in Guangzhou city.