BEIJING: China’s worst coronavirus outbreak in months has spread to two more parts of the country, health officials said on Saturday, covering the sprawling megacity of 31 million people.
NS national health commission 55 new cases were reported in four provinces and regions including Fujian Province and Chongqing Municipality in addition to Beijing, where the outbreak occurred. delta The variant was already reported.
More than 200 infections across the country have been linked to a cluster in the eastern jiangsu region, where nine scavengers at an international airport in the city Nanjing Tested positive on July 20.
Nanjing city authorities on Saturday ordered all tourist attractions and cultural sites not to open, following a spike in domestic transmissions.
Jiangsu province has already locked down thousands of people, while Nanjing has twice tested all 9.2 million residents.
tourist city zhangjiajie In hunano According to an official notice, the province, where only a handful of cases attended single theater performances, closed all 1.5 million residents and closed all tourist attractions.
Famous for its striking rock formations, the city is where “Avatar“The blockbuster was filmed.
In Beijing’s Changping district, where two locally transmitted cases have been found, 41,000 people in nine housing communities were placed under lockdown on Thursday.
China has previously claimed its success in sniffing out the pandemic within its borders after imposing the world’s first virus lockdown in early 2020 as Covid-19 exited the world. wuhan In the center of the country.
But an outbreak driven by a rapidly spreading Delta variant this month has jeopardized that record.
NS national health commission 55 new cases were reported in four provinces and regions including Fujian Province and Chongqing Municipality in addition to Beijing, where the outbreak occurred. delta The variant was already reported.
More than 200 infections across the country have been linked to a cluster in the eastern jiangsu region, where nine scavengers at an international airport in the city Nanjing Tested positive on July 20.
Nanjing city authorities on Saturday ordered all tourist attractions and cultural sites not to open, following a spike in domestic transmissions.
Jiangsu province has already locked down thousands of people, while Nanjing has twice tested all 9.2 million residents.
tourist city zhangjiajie In hunano According to an official notice, the province, where only a handful of cases attended single theater performances, closed all 1.5 million residents and closed all tourist attractions.
Famous for its striking rock formations, the city is where “Avatar“The blockbuster was filmed.
In Beijing’s Changping district, where two locally transmitted cases have been found, 41,000 people in nine housing communities were placed under lockdown on Thursday.
China has previously claimed its success in sniffing out the pandemic within its borders after imposing the world’s first virus lockdown in early 2020 as Covid-19 exited the world. wuhan In the center of the country.
But an outbreak driven by a rapidly spreading Delta variant this month has jeopardized that record.
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