Due to a resurgence of Covid, the Chinese government confined 17 million inhabitants of the city of Shenzhen

by time news

The Chinese government announced that the entire city of Shenzhen, a technological center in the south of the country, went into confinement this Sunday. The harsh measure covers the closure of companies such as Huawei and Tencent, whose operational nerve centers are located in that city. The entire commercial area of ​​the place was also closed.

The provision reaches 17 million peoplewho were asked to stay at home.

This is the largest confinement announced by China since the tax in the Xi’an metropolis, in the northern region, when 13 million inhabitants were quarantined towards the end of 2021, for a month.

The inhabitants of Shenzhen, doing the mandatory coronavirus tests. Photo: AFP

This new government measure seeks to control an outbreak of the variant omicronafter 66 cases were reported in Shenzhen during the last 24 hours.

The regime to which the inhabitants of that city are now subjected implies that only one person, once, will be able to leave the home every two days to buy the necessary provisions.

Meanwhile, the entire population will have to undergo a coronavirus test. In addition to the closure of businesses and the commercial area, the city council ordered the closure of schools, public transport and is forbidden to leave the town.

It is not the first Chinese city to be confined after a large outbreak in various areas of the country. On Friday it was the turn of the city of Changchun, an industrial center of 9 million inhabitants.

Smaller cities such as Siping and Dunhua, both in Jilin province, were also confined between Thursday and Friday last.

The omicron variant, which generated record numbers of infections in various parts of the world, including Argentina, is now besieging several cities in China.

The strong closure and confinement measures of entire cities were taken after more than 1,500 cases were detected in 24 hours; a figure that seems insignificant when compared to daily reports from other countries, but which is the highest recorded by China since the first phase of the pandemic, in early 2020.

The strong resurgence of omicron led Beijing to introduce self-diagnosis kits for the first time.

With information from AFP

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