Country is struggling to contain its fourth outbreak of Covid-19 and officials are asking for events and activities to be moved online.
Country is struggling to contain its fourth outbreak and officials are asking for events and activities to be moved onlineWorkers in protective suits inspect the health information of passengers leaving Yantai Railway Station following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Yantai, Shandong province, China, on November 2 2021. Picture: REUTERS/CHINA DAILY
Companies should cancel all conferences unless they are essential and take other steps to reduce public interaction as much as possible, authorities said at a press briefing held late on Thursday after seven cases were found in the Chinese capital in one day. Companies and individuals who host events will be held responsible, they said.
Beijing has detected 45 cases in the latest wave, the most since June 2020. The country is struggling to contain its fourth outbreak with the more infectious Delta variant in the past five months. With more than 1,000 locally-transmitted infections spread across 21 provinces, it is already the broadest flare-up since the virus first emerged in Wuhan. Nowhere are the stakes of maintaining the Covid Zero approach higher than in the tightly-guarded capital Beijing.
The latest wave in Beijing came fast and infected a larger number of people, creating a wider trajectory of disease, city government spokesperson Xu Hejian said. That makes prevention particularly difficult. The infections have triggered another bout of extensive contract tracing and rising restrictions, including the closure of a large hospital and a shopping mall in downtown Beijing. The residential compounds where the patients and their close contacts live have been locked down.
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