Shanghai was locked down in April and May. Read more: China's Covid test diagnostic firms are owed billions in unpaid bills, fear debtĬhina has been battling to contain the highly transmissible Omicron variant, imposing various degrees of lockdowns in cities to stop its spread. The policies will be "dynamically adjusted according to the development of the epidemic," the statement said.
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Residents in areas deemed high-risk are forbidden from stepping out of their homes.Ĭhengdu aims to achieve zero new community infections citywide within one week, the city's COVID-19 prevention and control command said in a statement.Ī handful of districts were released from a full lockdown, but residents still have to undergo mass testing on Friday and Sunday.Īlso, residents in districts no longer under a full lockdown are barred from going to other districts and are discouraged from leaving Chengdu for non-essential reasons. Residents in areas under lockdown will be tested every day and those who test positive will be quarantined. Read more: China's double whammy: Earthquake rescue work amid Covid outbreak Sixteen districts, cities, counties and special zones out of the 23 under Chengdu's jurisdiction remain under lockdown, the authorities said. 7, but local government officials said late on Wednesday that there are still risks of the virus's spread in some areas. The lockdown was expected to be lifted on Sept. 7 versus 121 a day earlier, according to local authorities on Thursday. Since then, Chengdu has been reporting largely under 200 new locally transmitted infections per day, a small number compared to outbreaks in other parts of the world. Read more: China's Zero Covid policy is not working.
1 after detecting a number of cases, becoming the largest Chinese metropolis to be slapped with the curbs since Shanghai earlier this year. The mega city, which has most recently battled with heat waves, power cuts and an earthquake, was locked down on Sept. Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, extended a lockdown in most of its districts on Thursday, hoping to stem further transmission of COVID-19 cases in the city of 21.2 million people.
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