China confines the 9 million inhabitants of the city of Shenyang due to an outbreak of coronavirus

China confined an industrial city of 9 million people by an outbreak of the coronaviruswhich spreads across the country with more than 4,700 cases reported on Tuesday, a wave of infections that puts its “zero covid” strategy to the test.

Shenyang, an industrial pole where the BMW factory is based, reported 47 infections on Tuesday. The authorities ordered the residents to stay at home and announced that they will not be able to leave without the negative result of a test taken in the previous 48 hours.

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The city is the capital of the province of Liaoningbordering with that of Jilin (north), epicenter of the current epidemic wave, due to the omicron variant.

Health authorities reported 4,770 new cases across the country on Tuesday, mostly in Jilin, while the city of Shenyang, also in the north, went into lockdown Monday night.

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China has rushed in recent weeks to eradicate hot spots with targeted lockdowns and massive testing. On Saturday it reported two deaths from covid-19, the first in more than a year from the coronavirus.

Authorities have warned of the economic risk of continued lockdowns as the country seeks to balance the health crisis with the needs of the world’s second-largest economy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted last week on the need to “minimize the impact” of the pandemic on the economy, but at the same time urged the authorities to “stick” to the current “zero covid” policy.

The current wave of infections has put that Chinese policy to the test, forcing authorities to free up hospital beds for patients with moderate symptoms.

Some cities such as Shanghai have applied confinements to specific buildings, avoiding a closure of the entire city despite the fact that it has registered up to hundreds of daily infections.

Meanwhile, the Shenzhen tech hub announced on Monday the lifting of its week-long lockdown, after easing some measures on Friday to minimize the impact of the virus on its economy.

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Source: Elcomercio

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