▲ In Shanghai, China, a number of workers were deployed to the edge of confined areas to help contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.Photo Afp
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Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, March 15, 2022, p. 13
Taipei. China yesterday prohibited the majority of the population from leaving a northeastern province affected by the coronavirus and mobilized the military reserve, at a time when the variant clandestine omicron
is causing the worst outbreak in the country.
This Tuesday registered 5,280 cases in the last 24 hours, which is the highest figure since the first wave at the beginning of 2020, according to data from the National Health Commission.
The government announced that to leave the area or to go from one city to another, a police permit will be required.
The province has activated 7,000 reservists who will help in the response to the outbreak. They will have missions such as maintaining public order, registering people at testing centers and using drones to spray areas with disinfectant, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
In other cities and provinces, both on the coast and inland regions, hundreds more cases were reported. Beijing, with six new cases, and Shanghai, with 41, closed residential and office buildings where sick people had been detected.
Every day, when I come to work, I think that maybe that day they will order the building to be closed and we will not be allowed to go home, so I always bring my sleeping bag and I have food reserves in the office, just in case
said Yimeng Li, a Shanghai resident.
Although the number of cases in both China and Hong Kong are much lower than in other countries, they are the highest now since thousands of people died of covid-19 in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. So far no there are deaths reported from the recent outbreak.
Hong Kong yesterday reported 26,908 new cases and 249 deaths in the last 24 hours. The city registers cases differently from mainland China, as it combines both rapid antigen tests and PCR tests.
Hong Kong Governor Carrie Lam said authorities will not increase restrictions against the virus for now.
I have to take into account if the public will accept more measures
said the governor at a press conference.
China has had very few infections since its strict lockdown in Wuhan and the government is steadfast in its zero-tolerance strategy, which focuses on curbing coronavirus spread as soon as possible and resorting to strict lockdowns and mandatory quarantines for any contacts of an infected.
The government has indicated that for the time being it will stick to its policy of curbing contagion.
In Peru, face-to-face classes in public schools resumed after two years of virtual education due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Some 4.2 million students in the public system returned to classrooms in stages from yesterday to March 28, according to the particular conditions and infrastructure of each school and region.
3 million students who attend private schools also resumed classes these days.
Peru, with 33 million inhabitants, has the highest death rate from the pandemic in the world: 6,416 deaths per million inhabitants, according to an Afp count based on official figures.
Since March 2020, Peru has accumulated more than 3.5 million cases of covid-19 and more than 211 thousand deaths.
The Guatemalan Ministry of Health presented the guidelines to officially start vaccination against covid-19 in children aged 6 to 11 years.
France on Monday lifted most of its COVID-19 restrictions, including the mask rule in most public spaces and the one that prevented unvaccinated people from going to restaurants, sports venues and other venues.
In the world there are more than 6 million 48 thousand deaths from covid-19 and infections exceed 458 million 884 thousand, according to official data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
