China is trying to stop the re-spread of CORONAVIRUS before the Winter Olympics – Topky.sk

Residents of the Chinese capital have also been instructed not to leave the city unless necessary, although public transport from Beijing is operating normally, AFP reported. China reported 39 new outbreaks on Monday, raising the country’s latest delta-related covid to more than 100 cases per week.

These numbers are extremely low compared to most other countries in the world, but China is pursuing a “zero case” strategy during the pandemic, and its leaders are determined to halt the new spread just over three months before the February Winter Olympics.

In Beijing, they closed several apartment complexes and the organizers postponed indefinitely on Sunday a marathon, which was expected to 30,000 runners. Most of the new cases of the disease, associated with a group of domestic tourists traveling in China, were recorded in the north of the country. Mass testing is taking place in 11 provinces. On Monday, a lockdown began for approximately 35,000 people, including tourists, in the Ejing area of ​​Inner Mongolia. Several cities, including Lanzhou – the capital of the neighboring Kansu Province – and parts of Inner Mongolia have suspended bus and taxi services and closed tourist attractions.

In the Central Chinese city of Wu-chan, where a new type of coronavirus was identified for the first time in late 2019, the organizers suddenly canceled another marathon on Sunday, which was expected to 26,000 participants.