Wednesday, April 1, 2020

China Puts Entire County On Lockdown After A New Coronavirus Cluster Emerges

Curfew-like measures have come into effect in Jia county, near the city of Pingdingshan, in Henan province. Photo: Handout

SCMP: Chinese county goes into coronavirus lockdown as country tries to get back to work amid fear of second wave

  * Authorities order residents of Jia county to stay home after reports of cases linked to the area’s hospital
  * All but a few essential businesses and services shut temporarily, according to government notice

Henan province in central China has taken the drastic measure of putting a mid-sized county in total lockdown as authorities try to fend off a second coronavirus wave in the midst of a push to revive the economy.

Curfew-like measures came into effect on Tuesday in Jia county, near the city of Pingdingshan, with the area’s roughly 600,000 residents told to stay home, according to a notice on the country’s official microblog account.

Special approval was required for all movement outside the home, it said.

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Update #1: Chinese county says in lockdown after coronavirus cases (Reuters)
Update #2: Here We Go Again: China Puts Entire County On Lockdown After New Corona Cluster Emerges (Zero Hedge)

WNU Editor: This is just more proof that China is far from being cured of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

3 comments:

Andrew Jackson said...

Never mind.

Anonymous said...

Sometimes shit happens says Russ in Ohio.

What a clever little man.

Anonymous said...

As capital is so liquid, and information is so easy to manipulate, my guess is the countries with best control over information will be able to attract investment, e.g. in the case of China they will pretend to be cured/free of virus/not the cause of virus in order to retain/attract capital.. but likely the opposite will happen, capital will flee China, because we see what happened and what caused it. The US will see an influx of investments and capital like never before.