The authorities of the The city of Changchun, in northeast China, decreed this Friday the confinement of its nine million inhabitants. due to the increase in coronavirus casesit was officially reported.
According to the official disposition, the inhabitants of this city will have to remain in their houses and only One person per household may leave the home once every two days for reasons of importancereported the AFP news agency.
China is experiencing its worst coronavirus outbreak in two years and the one in Changchun is the largest confinement announced since the tax in the metropolis of Xi’an (north), when 13 million inhabitants were quarantined at the end of last year.
China, where the virus was first detected at the end of 2019, giving rise to a global pandemic, was able to control the spread of infections by adopting very strict confinement measures that affected entire cities.
The official balance reported indicates that just over 100,000 cases were registered in China in two years, with a total of 4,636 deaths.
The Omicron variant caused localized outbreaks and This Friday, 1,369 cases were reported in the last 24 hoursaccording to figures from the Ministry of Health.
Although it is a low amount compared to the levels of other countries in the world, it is the highest figure registered by China since the beginning of 2020.
Of this total, the authorities identified 158 imported cases and 814 asymptomatic caseswhich are part of a separate count.
