Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Corona rises in Wuhan, China. Authorities found seven cases Monday (2/8/2021), after more than a year of no local cases in the city.
Local authorities reported cases among migrant workers. As a result, the city of 11 million people locked down a number of housing related cases.
Massive testing was carried out on almost the entire population of the city. Flights and trains have also been suspended amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
Inhabitant panic buying for worrying about the new lock-up happening. This reminds residents of the early days of the pandemic, when the city was hotspot world at the end of 2019.
Several shops were reportedly swarmed by shoppers in an instant which left many supermarket shelves empty. “Shoppers are buzzing at a supermarket in Wuhan, after a nearby housing block was locked down as part of a Covid-19 precautionary measure,” he wrote NPR.
China itself is currently struggling to contain the Delta variant that is beginning to spread in the country. This variant is strain The latest coronavirus discovered from India, which is believed to spread more quickly, is threatening health facilities and causing more severe symptoms.
Quotes Worldometers, China recorded 98 new cases, the highest since January 2021. A total of 55 cases were local transmission. Tuesday, cases slightly decreased to 90 patients. There are currently 1,157 active cases in China.
The Delta variant is said to have spread in 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces in China. To fight the increasing outbreak of the variant that was first discovered in India, millions of people are even now locked up (lockdown), through social restrictions and regional quarantine.
In Beijing since Sunday, city officials have asked residents not to leave the city. “Unless necessary,” the office said.
All rail, bus and air lines from the corona epicenter areas were found to be cut off. Tourists are also prohibited from coming to Beijing even though it is currently the peak of summer holidays in the country.
“Only important tourists are allowed in if the nucleic acid test is negative,” a Beijing official said.
Meanwhile, in Hunan Province, Zhuzhou City, exactly 1.2 million residents were asked to stay at home for three days. This coincided with massive government testing and citywide vaccinations.
“The situation is still bleak and difficult,” the Zhuzhou government said.
The tourist town of Zhangjiajie near Zhuozhu has also been under lockdown since last Friday. The total population of the city is 1.5 million.
China had previously succeeded in fighting Covid-19 in 2020. However, a new cluster of the Delta variant at Nanjing international airport, Jiangsu Province related to nine cleaners last July 20 threatened that success.
Over the past two weeks, 360 local cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19 have been found. It is not clear where the Delta variant came from, some suggest the infection came from flights from Russia carrying citizens who tested positive for Covid-19.
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