The pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, China, continues to heat up, and the number of local infected people in a single day has exceeded 500, of which Guangdong and Shandong have the most cases. (Image source: Video screenshot)
[See China March 8, 2022 News](See a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Li Xiaokui) ChinaWuhan pneumonia epidemicThe number of people infected with the virus in a single day in China has exceeded 500, of whichGuangdong、Shandongthe most cases. Since March 2, this wave of epidemics has affected at least22 provinces and citiessetting a record for the highest number of new diagnoses in a single day in the past two years.
According to a report on the official website of the China National Health Commission on the 7th,ChinaOn March 6, there were 327 new confirmed cases, and the number of asymptomatic infections also increased sharply, and 442 new asymptomatic infections were reported in various places.
The report pointed out that China’s new local confirmed cases on the 6th involved 19 provinces, including 50 new cases in Dongguan City, Guangdong, a major manufacturing city, and 42 new cases in Jilin City, Jilin Province, Jilin Province, which has announced the city’s “suspended production”. In Shenzhen, 3 and 19 new cases were added, respectively. In Qingdao City, Shandong Province, the epidemic in Laixi City, under its jurisdiction, continued to spread, with 46 new cases in a single day. If local asymptomatic infections were added, there were 163 cases in total, exceeding 100 for 6 consecutive days.
526 new infections in a single day, Dongguan accounts for 153 cases
According to CCTV, the 50 new local confirmed cases and 103 local asymptomatic infections in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province on the 6th were all in Dalang Town. 19 confirmed cases were found in Shenzhen on the same day, and the activity track involved Futian, Luohu, Nanshan, and Baoan areas.
At present, many communities in Shenzhen have been closed for management. Zhang Hai, a Wuhan citizen who stayed in Shenzhen, told Radio Free Asia that the local epidemic is severe, and every community requires residents to undergo nucleic acid screening. “I have done it 10 times. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to go to supermarkets or urban villages. If you go in, you can’t even enter the community. So it gives the impression that the atmosphere is very tense.”
The Shenzhen Port Office announced on the 5th that Shenzhen Port tested another 24 truck drivers with positive nucleic acid tests on March 4. The newly added drivers with positive nucleic acid tests are distributed at Shenzhen Bay, Liantang, Man Kam To, Huanggang, and Sha Tau Kok ports.
Shanghai informs state-owned hotels to prepare for expropriation
In Shanghai, it was reported that the local government notified the hotels affiliated to local companies on Saturday to prepare for quarantine stores. Some netizens pointed out that when the epidemic was the worst in 2020, the hotels affiliated to state-owned enterprises were not requisitioned, and the epidemic may be more serious this time.
Many netizens also left messages saying, “The community where my colleagues and their leaders live have been closed. Now the epidemic situation in Shanghai is serious, and the party and the state do not care about eating and drinking.” “Shanghai seems to be preparing for the epidemic. “#Shanghai Epidemic# School closed-loop students are not allowed to leave the dormitory, teachers go home and sleep normally every day, uncles and aunts in the cafeteria sleep in the cafeteria… It’s so sad to think about it”, “I heard that Shanghai has closed 8 hospitals, the population density of the big city originally There is a shortage of major medical resources, and now it’s even worse.”
It was reported on the Internet that the epidemic situation in Shanghai was severe, and citizens conducted nucleic acid tests overnight. (Image source: Weibo)
As of the evening of March 6, there are 4 medium-risk areas in Shanghai, namely Shiquan Community Cultural Activity Center, No. 33 Ningqiang Road, Shiquan Street, Putuo District, Yonghui Supermarket Huting North Road Store, Jiuliting Street, Songjiang District, and Malu Town, Jiading District. No. 1, Lane 3705, Bao’an Highway, and No. 1200, Caoxi North Road, Xujiahui Street, Xuhui District.
According to a woman surnamed Zhang who is familiar with the transmission route of the epidemic, the recent increase in the epidemic situation in China is related to the insufficient protection of domestic vaccines. In addition, the outbreak in Shanghai and Qingdao caused by the Omicron variant virus not only has an unknown source of infection, but also has a different source from the current cases imported from within or outside China.
Domestic vaccines are useless and spread to 22 provinces and cities in 5 days
Earlier, Xiang Dong, deputy director of the Research Office of China’s State Council, said that by the end of 2021, China’s vaccine vaccination rate has exceeded 85%, and by the end of February 2022, it has exceeded 87%.
However, the epidemic in China is still resurgent this year, and it broke out at many points recently. According to incomplete statistics from the People’s Daily, in just five days from March 2 to 6, the current round of epidemics in China has involved 19 provinces (autonomous regions). and 3 municipalities directly under the Central Government, namely Guangdong, Jilin, Shandong, Gansu, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Hubei, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Hainan, Shaanxi, Henan, as well as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai.
It is worth mentioning that the official notification shows that as of 24:00 on March 6, there were 3,837 confirmed cases in China, with a total of 111,195 confirmed cases and 4,636 deaths. But VOA pointed out that China’s official definition of confirmed cases differs from many countries, and the accuracy of its reported numbers has been questioned.
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