Comprehensive COVID-19 Test Order in The largest area in Beijing pushed the population in Chinese equity capital up on Grocery stores, afraid to be doomed for Similar insurance of Shanghai, which has entered its fourth week of bitterness – bitter isolation.
authorities in Chaoyang, home to 3.45 million peoplelate on Sunday ordered these who live And work There to test three times This week, Beijing warned of the “stealth” spread of the virus. for About a week before it was discovered.
knowledge how Shanghai residents struggled for food and other necessities while shoppers were locked inside in Beijing crowded stores And online storage pallets up on Fresh vegetables, meat, instant noodles and toilet paper.
A 63year-old resident of Chaoyang District, surnamed Di, bought two bags of Vegetables – enough for Eight to 10 days, he said – just in his condition building he is added to more Of the dozen they were put under closure.
“Shanghai was a lesson,” he said, adding that he did not believe Beijing would suffer the same fate.
In the financial axis, imperfection of Enough couriers to deliver shipments to homes It was main The bottleneck is fueling widespread anxiety and anger.
In Beijing, supermarket chains, including Carrefour and Walmart, have said they have done so more From weak stocks, while grocery-focused e-commerce platform Meituan increased stocks and number of staff for The counting and delivery were reported by the state-backed Beijing Daily.
Chinese stocks fell to two-year lows on worries of Possible outbreak in Beijing.
Research published by Gavekal Dragonomics on Friday estimated that out of China’s 100 largest cities in terms of economic output, 57 of which have “relatively stringent” restrictions around the coronavirus in place last week, down From 66 the previous week.
The number of cases in Beijing small comparison with These are all over the world and hundreds of in thousands in Shanghai. Most Chaoyang Schools, stores Offices remained open.
Region home For many wealthy residents and most foreign embassies as well as entertainment venues and corporate headquarters. It has little manufacturing.
Each door must be managed
In Shanghai, strict restrictions were still widely enforced throughout cityBut officials raised hopes of Take some comfort in saying that they will consider keeping the strictest restrictions for Smaller areas around confirmed cases.
“Every compound, every gate, every door must be strictly managed,” Vice Qi Keping-head of The Northeast Business District of Shanghai of Yangpu, the daily newspaper news Conference, describing new more The targeted approach, and saying it “would better achieve differentiated prevention”.
Over the weekend, authorities closed off entries of Many public Residential blocks and even entire streets with 2m (6.5ft) green wire mesh fences, with Videos online Residents are shown protesting from their balconies as frustration arrives new Inter-city heights, with a population of 25 million.
police in firm suits They were patrolling the streets, staying up Roadblocks and ask pedestrians to go home.
While authorities say they have eased some restrictions, most of them in Shanghai either is still confined to their homes Or they can’t leave their apartment complex. even those who he can go out She has a few places to go, with shops Most other places are closed.
to explain need for a new Qi individual approach out Tongji New Village area in its area, saying that although all of its 6,000 residents were under complete Only a few apartment buildings that have reported positive cases have been closed and there could be restrictions more concentrated on these.
Chi spoke together with others city officials.
one woman in Changning District in Shanghai, who declined In order to reveal her name, he said that Chi’s comments gave her something to hold on to on to.
“Although I am still sealed up Now, I’m crying with Joy,” she said via WeChat.
Shanghai government I mentioned 51 new covid-19 deaths on April 24 highest Daily tally so far.
This takes official death The death toll was 138, all reported from 17 April onwards, although many residents said relatives or friends died after that. catching COVID-19 as early as March, casting doubt over statistics.
The number of asymptomatic cases in the previous day decreased to 16,983 from 19,657 the day before in Shanghai. Asymptomatic infections rose to 2,472 from 1,401.
cases outside Quarantine areas fell to 217 from 280. Other cities that were under lockdown began easing restrictions as soon as such cases occurred. hit zero.
There were 70 locally transferred cases in eight of Beijing’s 16 provinces since Friday, with Chaoyang Accounting for 46 of With them.
