The rolling lockdowns have crippled economic growth. In western China, Xining, the capital of Qinghai province and home to 2.5 million people, ordered a lockdown from Monday until Thursday in its urban areas and suspended public transport. Four districts ordered more than 3 million residents to work from home until Wednesday afternoon. In Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province in northern China, authorities suspended public transport across the city over the weekend, after 30 infections were found during mass testing. In the northern port city of Dalian, a lockdown was imposed on Thursday and set to run until Sunday in its main urban areas, affecting about 3 million residents.
REUTERS/David Kirton David Kirton/ReutersĬhina shuts world's largest electronics market as Shenzhen imposes more lockdowns Workers set up barricades outside an entrance to Wanxia urban village as part of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) control measures in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China August 29, 2022. She was detained for 15 days and fined 1,000 yuan for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On Tuesday, Chengdu police said the WeChat user, surnamed She, had caused panic among citizens and disrupted epidemic prevention work by posting “provocative comments”. Screenshots of his messages were leaked and went viral on social media, sending residents to snap up groceries and daily necessities at supermarkets. On Monday, a Chengdu resident with the handle “Tropical Forest” on WeChat, China’s popular messaging app, said in a group chat that authorities would discuss whether to impose a lockdown in an evening meeting. The panic buying followed similar scenes earlier in the week following speculation on social media that authorities were considering a lockdown. Photos circulating on social media show markets packed with crowds, car trunks and backseats filled with groceries – and a dozen chicken strapped onto the roof of a car. On Wednesday, Chengdu reported just 156 cases.Ĭhengdu’s lockdown, announced hours before it went into force, sparked panic buying across the city. Shanghai was reporting thousands of infections per day in late March as it headed into the lockdown. This is China’s largest city-wide lockdown since Shanghai, the financial hub of 25 million people, emerged from a painful two-month lockdown in June. Restaurant dining is also being suspended, with only takeaways allowed.
Households can send one person out for grocery shopping once per day with a negative test, and residents with emergency requests such as seeking medical care must gain approval from a neighborhood committee.Īll businesses are to be shut except for supermarkets, pharmacies and hospitals. Liu Zhongjun/China News Service/Getty Images The streets of Chengdu are largely empty after the city imposed a sweeping Covid lockdown on Monday. The city’s digital system used to register Covid tests has crashed repeatedly due to the sudden surge in entries, resulting in long lines at some testing sites, according to residents on social media. Mass testing will take place from Thursday to Sunday, the city government said. Thursday, except for mandatory Covid testing. The lockdown requires all residents to stay at home from 6 p.m. The move offered a stark reminder of the lengths the country is prepared to go to in sticking to the zero-tolerance approach favored by leader Xi Jinping, with the shutting down of the megacity following the reporting of more than 700 cases the previous week.Īnd it came despite earlier efforts by authorities to quash rumours that such a lockdown was coming, with police arresting one resident who was accused of making “provocative comments” on social media. The Chinese metropolis of Chengdu imposed a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining 21 million residents to their homes as the country doubles down on its zero-Covid policy ahead of a key Communist Party meeting.
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