[Frontline interviews]Citizens boycotted Beijing’s mandatory nucleic acid screening | Beijing epidemic | continued to heat up | tightened lockdown

[The Epoch Times, May 3, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Fang Xiao and Chang Chun interviewed and reported) Recently, the epidemic situation in Beijing has continued to heat up. During the “May 1st” small and long holiday, the official tightened control measures, emphasizing that citizens should undergo nucleic acid screening for 3 consecutive days. On May 3, “12 regions in Beijing carry out 3 rounds of nucleic acid in 3 days” was pushed to the hot search. However, some citizens said that they resisted nucleic acid testing.

On May 3 (Tuesday), the CCP officially announced that on the 2nd, Beijing added 51 local confirmed cases and 11 asymptomatic infections (a total of 62 cases).

Beijing officials previously announced that starting from May 3, three rounds of regional nucleic acid screening will be carried out in 12 districts in Beijing for three consecutive days. Entering public places must provide a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours, the city suspends dine-in services, and the city suspends the operation of performance venues, entertainment venues, and Internet access service venues. The Palace Museum in Beijing also announced that it will close all indoor exhibition halls from the 3rd.

Regarding the official tightening of control measures during the “May 1st” period, Mr. Liu, who lives in Tongzhou, Beijing, told The Epoch Times that during the “May 1st” holiday, all restaurants in Beijing were closed, ordinary places were not allowed to go, and movie theaters were also closed. . Citizens who are open in the supermarket can buy things.

Mr. Liu said that Beijing has begun to seal off units in communities where the epidemic is very serious, but there is no large-scale seal, which is a “soft seal” and does not allow outsiders to come in.

When it comes to nucleic acid testing, Mr. Liu said that citizens are asked to do nucleic acid testing every day, “but I didn’t do it because I don’t go out. Nucleic acid testing is useless at all.”

Ms. Qi, a Beijing citizen, told reporters, “Those who don’t do nucleic acid are not allowed to go out, take the bus, enter the supermarket, or go here or there, they are suffocating me. (Actually) I don’t want to do nucleic acid, I’m afraid. ah.

“I haven’t done nucleic acid, so I don’t need to think about where to go out. Those who have done nucleic acid, I don’t think they go out much. Anyway, people are less likely to go out, so they stay at home and don’t go out for shopping. Going to go out for a walk, go out to play. Now I see our neighbors are not going out, because it is difficult to go back to Beijing after leaving Beijing, Beijing is more strictly controlled, and it is not easy to enter Beijing. “

Recently, Beijing officials have reported dozens of new local confirmed cases in Beijing almost every day.

The report on May 2 stated that since April 22, a total of 400 cases of infection have been reported in Beijing, involving 14 districts, including 156 in Chaoyang District and 103 in Fangshan District, all of which are administrative districts with more cases. Up to now, Beijing has 10 high-risk areas and 26 medium-risk areas.

The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention has analyzed the cases that have caused more secondary infections since April 22, and believes that one of the characteristics is that many people have dinner together during the infectious period, causing clustered epidemics; the other is that the scope of activities is wider, This led to the spread of the epidemic.

Due to the CCP’s persistent efforts to cover up the truth of the epidemic, the outside world generally believes that the official data is untrue.

In late April, since the outbreak of the epidemic in Beijing, Chaoyang District, with a population of 3.45 million, has launched the first nationwide nucleic acid test. Chaoyang city authorities ordered three nucleic acid tests for residents and workers in the area.

Due to the sudden closure of the city in Shanghai, the people were in short supply and living in difficulties. In anticipation of the lockdown of the epidemic, there was a panic buying boom in Beijing, and supermarkets ran out of stock. There are also various guides circulating on the Internet that “Shanghai citizens guide Beijing citizens to stock up.”

Stores and supermarkets in Beijing were crowded with shoppers, and online shopping platforms were out of stock, as people stocked up on green leafy vegetables, fresh meat, instant noodles and toilet paper.

On the morning of May 3, Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, reported that the residents of the Beijing control area had received a free vegetable gift package, weighing a full 15 kilograms. Mr. Liu from Tongzhou, Beijing said, “We didn’t receive a free vegetable gift package. The Zhao family (an internet buzzword in mainland China, generally referring to the CCP dignitaries) received it. Someone will deliver it to the Zhao family at any time.”

Mr. Liu said that he lives in Songzhuang, Tongzhou, which is the largest gathering area for artists and art studios in the world. There are more than 10,000 artists and their families there. No one has received them, right? The villagers did not see anyone receiving the gift package.

Ms. Qi told reporters, “I haven’t heard of free vegetable gift packs for residents, and we have no one here to deliver (gift packs). I haven’t even heard of it. I don’t believe there is such a thing.”

On the afternoon of May 3, the Qiantun Community of Dongsheng Town, Haidian District, Beijing issued a message saying that on the 3rd, it received a notification from the superior that there were positive cases in the first screening of Laizhen Jiayuan North District. Shopping to avoid congestion.

On the evening of the 3rd, Li Yi, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and spokesman for the Municipal Education Commission, said that primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and secondary vocational schools in Beijing will be suspended for a week after the May Day holiday.

Responsible editor: Lin Congwen#