China tackles COVID-19 spike with selective lockdowns and other measures that appear to slightly mitigate son draconian character”zero tolerance” strategy.
In Hong Kong, which recorded more over 58,000 new case on On Thursday, barbers and hair salons reopened. Many see this as an example of mixed messages from the government of the semi-Chinese autonomous territory which has been ordered to follow the “zero “tolerance” approach used on the continent.
The 402 cases of recorded local transmission on Continental Thursday was four times the number of case a week ago.
Of these, 165 were in the northeastern province of Jilin, mainly in towns of Changchun and Jilin, where city authorities locked down down 160 residential communities where multiple cases have been detected.
Three rounds of mass testing in Jilin city to have also been completed, betweencity transport links suspended and all residents urged to stay home down to the numbers drop. Non-essential businesses and snow recreation areas have been closed.
Drivers and passengers of private cars, buses and taxis entering or leaving Changchun must present negative tests for the coronavirus caught in the past 48 hours.
Authorities attributed the outbreak in Jilin Province to the highly contagious omicron variant, with more more than 1,200 cases recorded nationwide since Friday, some of the highest figures since the pandemic began to spread from the center city of Wuhan in 2020.
However, control measures were less stringent than in the past, in a possible sign as China begins to soften son “zero tolerance approach” to the pandemic. As recently as January, China was locking down down entire cities, affecting millions of people.
In son Annual Report on the work of government Speaking on Saturday, Premier Li Keqiang said China must “constantly refine epidemic containment” but gave no direct indication that Beijing was giving up.zero tolerance.”
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the reduction in deaths in the citypriority, while a mass testing plan has been put on hold. It had been planned for this month, but Lam said there were no more set Hourly. For reduce virus deaths, Hong Kong spends one hospital to COVID-19 treatment, converting general rooms and building an emergency hospital which will be equipped with personnel continental medicine.
