Queues at supermarkets and temporary centers for tampons. Beijing afraid of becoming like Shanghai. The Chinese government has not changed its restrictive policy towards Covid. At the first hint of cases and contagion, the lockdown in China. Beijingers have rushed to buy goods in supermarkets for fear of being stuck at home. Health authorities have decided to do mass swabs and tests.
The fear is widespread because, despite the strict Chinese censorship, terrible news has arrived from Shanghai, the city has been almost entirely blocked for weeks. They filter images of common centers where people who tested positive are kept. Toilets are common, living conditions are unacceptable for many. Other people remained locked in their homes for days without the possibility of doing any kind of refueling. And yet the rules are still very strict.
China has no intention of changing the line in the fight against Covid, including the Omicron variant. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that “China will not give up, but will advance in the war to block OmicronAnd, despite the evident impact on the economy, he speaks of remarkable results. “We will certainly win and make greater contributions to the world,” added the official reiterating a line that almost no country in the world has chosen in the face of a contagious variant, but with fewer serious cases, as Omicron.
The epicenter of the Beijing outbreak is the Chaoyang district, an area of offices, shopping malls and embassies. Not a closed neighborhood, therefore, but an area with a large circulation of people. For at least a week there have been infections and for the 3.5 million residents of Chaoyang there are three swabs to be done in six days. If these are negative they can leave the house, but it is equally true that carpet swabs certainly lead to the discovery of even asymptomatic cases which in China are treated as symptomatic.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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