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A suburb of Wuhan – that of Jiangxia – was put in lockdown after 4 cases of people testing positive for the coronavirus

Back on lockdown a Wuhan.

The Chinese authorities have ordered the confinement of Jiangxiasuburb of the city, where he lives approx a million peoplefollowing the detection of 4 asymptomatic cases of coronavirus. The lockdown will last for three days.

This is the first time that the Chinese metropolis – which has a total of 12 million inhabitants – returns to order a lockdown from 2020.

China maintains its zero Covid policy, using lockdowns, movement restrictions and large-scale testing, although the more contagious variants of the disease appear to be able to bypass many of the containment measures.

The zero Covid strategy is increasingly questioned in China due to its very high costs in both economic and social terms. The authorities consider it essential to prevent health structures from collapsing in the face of too high waves of cases.

Two days ago, a study published su Science had confirmed that the first epicenter of what later became the Covid pandemic touched the Wuhan market.

As written here, the researchers reconstructed the early stages of the story, focusing on the distribution of known cases in humans and mammals sensitive to Sars-CoV-2, linking them to positive samples taken from the environment, such as cages. All reconstructions led back to Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

“Although there is insufficient evidence to define the upstream events and the exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyzes indicate that the spread of the virus originated from the live wildlife trade in China and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the pandemic ”say the authors.

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