Residents of three Chinese cities have been banned from leaving their homes amid the rapid spread of COVID-19.
In China on the morning of Friday, January 14, 201 new active cases of COVID-19 were reported, 143 of which were transmitted locally.
This is reported by The Guardian.
Cases of local infection were registered in Henan, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Guangdong and Shanghai. In addition, asymptomatic infection with coronavirus infection was confirmed in another 42 residents of the country.
In general, since the beginning of the pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been “caught” by 104,580 residents of China, 4,636 of whom have died from complications of the disease.
Recall that in China, residents of three cities were forbidden to leave their homes amid the rapid spread of coronavirus infection. This week, a lockdown was announced for 5.5 million residents of the city of Anyang (Henan Province).
Strict movement restrictions have been in place for the 13 million people of Xi'an city in Shaanxi province for three weeks now, and in Henan province more than a million residents of Yuzhou city have been quarantined after three cases of asymptomatic COVID-19 were detected.
Earlier it was reported that in China, after the discovery of 40 cases of COVID-19, a partial lockdown was introduced for 14 million residents of the city of Tianjin. The government has divided the city into three levels of restrictions. The toughest of them operate in a closed zone, where people are not allowed to leave their homes at all, and a control zone, in which each household can send one family member for groceries every other day.
