China: Changchun’s 9 million people in lockdown – Shanghai closes schools

Lockdown was imposed on the nine million inhabitants of the Chinese city of Changchun (northeast China), local authorities announced today, while in Shanghai it was announced that from March 12 all primary and secondary schools will be closed and students will go to school. preventive measures against Covid-19.

Shanghai authorities have announced that daycare centers and kindergartens will also be closed.

China is facing one of the most serious flares of Covid-19 in the last two years.

Lockdown in Changchun is the most important announcement in the country since the one imposed on Xi’an, a city of 13 million at the end of last year.

In Changchun, only one person per household is allowed to go out once every two days, the town hall announced.

The Omicron variant is responsible for the local flares in China, which affected 1,369 people in the last 24 hours, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health.

The number remains small compared to the rest of the world, but is the highest for China after the first phase of the epidemic, in early 2020.

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Source: Capital

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