Beijing: Beijing It is building new hospital facilities to deal with the spike in Covid-19 cases, even though the number of new cases is small.
State media reported Tuesday that a 1,000-bed hospital in Xiaotangshan, a northeastern suburb built for the 2003 SARS outbreak, has been refurbished if needed.
Unofficial reports online said thousands of beds have been prepared at a centralized quarantine center near the airport, but state media have not confirmed the preparations which may have been an attempt to avoid public fear.
New cases in Beijing have remained steady, with another 62 reported on Monday, 11 of them showing no symptoms, up only slightly from about 50 per day over the weekend. Beijing has recorded nearly 450 cases in the two-week-old outbreak.
China sticks to its strict “zero-Covid” approach that restricts travel, conducts mass testing across cities and sets up temporary facilities to try to isolate every infected person. Lockdowns begin in buildings and neighborhoods but build up across cities if the virus is spreading widely.
It comes as several other countries ease pandemic restrictions. Experts have questioned the usefulness of China’s tough policy, saying vaccines and new treatments for COVID-19 make them redundant.
Beijing has ordered restaurants and gyms to close for the national holiday of May Day, which lasts until Wednesday, while the city’s major tourist destinations, including the Forbidden City and the Beijing Zoo, will close their indoor exhibition halls from Tuesday.
Three more rounds of testing have been ordered for most of the city’s 21 million people starting Tuesday, following a similar requirement last week. It is necessary to obtain a negative test result within the last 48 hours to be admitted to most public places.
in officers Shanghai are slowly starting to ease lockdown restrictions, which have confined most of the city’s 26 million people to their apartments, housing complexes or immediate neighborhoods for a month.
Shanghai on Monday reported another 5,669 cases, all of whom were 274 asymptomatic, along with an additional 20 deaths.
The surprisingly low death toll in Shanghai amid an outbreak of more than 400,000 cases has raised questions about how to scale up such deaths.
The severe lockdown conditions have led to large-scale disruptions from food shortages, although a temporary impact on the national economy is likely.
China’s largest city reported 27,605 new cases daily on April 13, nearly three weeks ago.
State media reported Tuesday that a 1,000-bed hospital in Xiaotangshan, a northeastern suburb built for the 2003 SARS outbreak, has been refurbished if needed.
Unofficial reports online said thousands of beds have been prepared at a centralized quarantine center near the airport, but state media have not confirmed the preparations which may have been an attempt to avoid public fear.
New cases in Beijing have remained steady, with another 62 reported on Monday, 11 of them showing no symptoms, up only slightly from about 50 per day over the weekend. Beijing has recorded nearly 450 cases in the two-week-old outbreak.
China sticks to its strict “zero-Covid” approach that restricts travel, conducts mass testing across cities and sets up temporary facilities to try to isolate every infected person. Lockdowns begin in buildings and neighborhoods but build up across cities if the virus is spreading widely.
It comes as several other countries ease pandemic restrictions. Experts have questioned the usefulness of China’s tough policy, saying vaccines and new treatments for COVID-19 make them redundant.
Beijing has ordered restaurants and gyms to close for the national holiday of May Day, which lasts until Wednesday, while the city’s major tourist destinations, including the Forbidden City and the Beijing Zoo, will close their indoor exhibition halls from Tuesday.
Three more rounds of testing have been ordered for most of the city’s 21 million people starting Tuesday, following a similar requirement last week. It is necessary to obtain a negative test result within the last 48 hours to be admitted to most public places.
in officers Shanghai are slowly starting to ease lockdown restrictions, which have confined most of the city’s 26 million people to their apartments, housing complexes or immediate neighborhoods for a month.
Shanghai on Monday reported another 5,669 cases, all of whom were 274 asymptomatic, along with an additional 20 deaths.
The surprisingly low death toll in Shanghai amid an outbreak of more than 400,000 cases has raised questions about how to scale up such deaths.
The severe lockdown conditions have led to large-scale disruptions from food shortages, although a temporary impact on the national economy is likely.
China’s largest city reported 27,605 new cases daily on April 13, nearly three weeks ago.