China has a zero-tolerance policy for COVID-19. | Font: EFE
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Numerous Chinese cities across the country have declared full or partial self-isolation due to the coronavirus outbreak. COVID-19 recorded in recent days, local media reported today.
One of the affected places is a popular holiday destination in the southern island province. Hainanwhere Sanya, a city known for its luxurious beach hotels, has recorded more than 1,250 symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the last 24 hours.
Since last week, selective restrictions have been applied in various areas of the city, preventing more than 80,000 tourists from returning to their places of origin.
Local authorities then reported that the outbreak was caused by an imported variant of the virus. omicron strain BA.5.1.3which could have been brought to the island as a result of trade with foreign fishermen, an economic activity among which the first infected were found.
Local media reports today that more than 2,000 tourists who stayed in areas of the island not considered dangerous have been able to return to their places of origin.
Under China’s zero-tolerance policy on COVID-19, all those infected and their close contacts must be isolated in hospitals or other official facilities.
Other cases
In its turn, yiwu (Vostok), a major manufacturing and commercial hub, has imposed a three-day lockdown since Thursday to try to contain a resurgence that authorities have described as “serious.”
Since August 2 last year yiwu, with a population of 1.8 million, has just over 470 positive cases. Residential complexes in the city remain closed, and the authorities suspend public transport.
In another part of the country, the capital of the western region xinjiangUrumqi, partially suspended public transport and imposed closures of some residential complexes for five days after identifying 27 cases on Wednesday.
In other remote area of China Tibetthe cases were identified last week after not a single positive result for COVID-19 was reported for two years.
The outbreak has led to movement restrictions in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and the second-largest city of Shigatse in the region. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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