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Covid 19: China expands lockdowns as cases hit daily record

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      The Chinese government has extended lockdowns in line with its Zero-Covid policy as case numbers hit a new daily record for the country. Video / AP

      Pandemic lockdowns are expanding across China, including in a city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as the number of Covid-19 cases hits a daily record.

      Residents of eight districts of Zhengzhou, home to 6.6 million people, were told to stay home for five days beginning Thursday except to buy food or get medical treatment. Daily mass testing was ordered in what the city government called a “war of annihilation” against the virus.

      A worker in protective gear holds a fan with the health check QR code as she talks on her phone at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing'. Photo / AP
      A worker in protective gear holds a fan with the health check QR code as she talks on her phone at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing'. Photo / AP

      During clashes, Zhengzhou police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, located in an industrial zone near the city. Foxconn, the Taiwan-based owner of the factory, apologised for what it called “an input error in the computer system” and said it would guarantee that the pay is the same as agreed to and in official recruitment posters.

      In the previous 24 hours, the number of new Covid cases rose by 31,444, the National Health Commission said Thursday. That’s the highest daily figure since the coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.

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      The daily caseload has been steadily increasing. This week, authorities reported China’s first Covid-19 deaths in six months, bringing the total to 5232.

      While the number of cases and deaths is relatively low compared to the US and other countries, China’s ruling Communist Party remains committed to a “zero-Covid” strategy that aims to isolate every case and eliminate the virus entirely. Most other governments have ended anti-virus controls and now rely on vaccinations and immunity from past infections to help prevent deaths and serious illness.

      Workers in protective suits walk by people installing metal barriers in a locked-down neighborhood in Beijing. Photo / Andy Wong, AP
      Workers in protective suits walk by people installing metal barriers in a locked-down neighborhood in Beijing. Photo / Andy Wong, AP

      Businesses and residential communities from the manufacturing centre of Guangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north are in various forms of lockdowns, measures that particularly affect blue-collar migrant workers. In many cases, residents say the restrictions go beyond what the national government allows.

      Guangzhou suspended access Monday to its Baiyun district of 3.7 million residents, while residents of some areas of Shijiazhuang, a city of 11 million people southwest of Beijing, were told to stay home while mass testing is conducted.

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      Beijing opened a hospital in an exhibition centre. It suspended access to the Beijing International Studies University after a virus case was found there. Some shopping malls, and office buildings were closed and access blocked to some apartment compounds.

      Suggesting some of those measures might be at least semi-permanent, workers were erecting a 2m-high fence around the aging, low-rise brick apartment buildings in Beijing’s Hongmiao Beili community.

      A half dozen people in hazmat suits manned the entrance to a lane running through the community, standing behind waist-high steel barriers usually used for crowd control.

      A woman looks out from the barriers set up in a locked-down neighbourhood in Beijing. Photo / AP
      A woman looks out from the barriers set up in a locked-down neighbourhood in Beijing. Photo / AP

      Authorities had announced measures to try to reduce disruptions from pandemic controls by shortening quarantines and making other changes. Some Chinese have expressed frustration and confusion about the apparent policy flip-flops on social media.

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      While China’s borders remain largely closed, the government has been “optimising and facilitating the exit and entry process for executives and specialised personnel of multinational companies and foreign businesses and their family members in China”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily news conference Thursday.

      Mao said China would continue to improve various Covid protocols “according to the science-based and targeted principles” to help facilitate travel and cooperation and exchanges with other countries.

      A key issue is concern about how vulnerable people are to the virus. Few Chinese have caught Covid or even been exposed to the virus, so only a small percentage are thought to have built up effective levels of virus-fighting antibodies.

      A taxi driver waits for a customer near lines of unused share bicycles in Beijing. Photo / AP
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      China has an overall coronavirus vaccination rate of more than 92 per cent, with most people having received at least one dose. But far fewer older Chinese — particularly those over age 80 — have had the shots.

      The government is trying to contain the latest wave of outbreaks without shutting down factories and the rest of its economy as it did in early 2020. One tactic is using “closed-loop management,” under which workers live in their factories with no outside contacts.


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