Jilin residents ordered to stay at home and reservists sent to disinfect streets as 1,437 new cases reported across China
China’s government has ordered a province of 24 million people into lockdown as it tries to contain a Covid-19 outbreak that has spread to multiple locations.
On Sunday a government notice said all residential communities in Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people,, meaning they would be locked down. Every resident would undergo three rounds of testing, for which they were allowed to leave their homes, and all buses and subways were suspended. Some residents of Cangzhou, south of Beijing, were also told to stay at home after nine cases were reported there, according to a government notice.
The case numbers reported among China’s 1.4 billion people are low compared with other countries, but represent the country’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. China’s zero-Covid strategy of swiftly crushing outbreaks through resource-intensive mass testing and lockdowns has so far been successful. However, as in other countries, the emergence of the Omicron variant has challenged defences.
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