BEIJING: Soon after few covid-19 cases reported, A partial lockdown was imposed on the Chinese capital on Wednesday, with 1.6 million residents banned from leaving Beijing
All 1.6 million residents of Daxing are not allowed to leave Beijing, without having any special permission from the authorities or negative report for COVID-19 in the past three days, the district stated.
The gathering of 50 or more individuals within the district have been banned, whereas “weddings must be postponed and funerals simplified, also all nursery, primary and secondary students within the district are advised to study at the home”, the district government said
Residents of 5 Daxing neighborhoods the place the circumstances have been detected have been ordered to stay indoors.
China reported 103 new cases on Wednesday, together with the seven in Beijing.
The outbreaks, including in neighboring Hebei province, have put China on high alert for a possible wave of cases forward of the upcoming Lunar New Yr holiday.
In the meantime, almost three million people in northeastern Jilin province have been placed under lockdown on Monday after a traveling salesman infected over 100 individuals.
