Daily cases of Covid in China have reached a record high since the start of the pandemic. The National Health Bureau reports. While the country has worked to curb the spread with sudden lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, it is A total of 31,454 domestic cases were recorded, of which 27,517 were asymptomatic.
The resurgence of coronavirus infections across the country has prompted the authorities to decide on a new set of closures in Beijing regarding many public places and commercial activities. In the two large central districts of Haidian and Chaoyang, where about 7 million people live, a lockdown has been imposed.
Five deaths attributed to Covid-19 were recorded over the weekend, the first in all of China since April. StThus began mass tests on the entire population, which China has been adopting for some time now to counter the spread of infections based on its controversial “zero Covid” strategy: the one that provides for the adoption of very harsh and immediate lockdowns to completely eliminate any outbreak that occurs in the country.
The “zero Covid” strategy in recent years has forced many cities throughout China into months of strict lockdowns, putting some of the country’s main economic centers in difficulty and causing a major economic slowdown. Initially the “zero COVID” strategy had seemed to work and had allowed the Chinese to live a roughly normal life: however, the appearance of highly contagious variants made it almost impossible to maintain.
The city of the iPhone factory is in lockdown
Meanwhile, Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, ordered the lockdown in several districts in efforts to bring the outbreaks of Covid-19 under control at the origin of the violent protests on Tuesday night and yesterday morning at the Foxconn mega plant, the ‘Iphone city’ which assembles 70% of Apple’s smartphones. Residents of the center cannot leave the area unless they have a negative covid test and permission from local authorities.
