(ANSA) - BEIJING, 28 JUL - The new "temporary" lockdown, announced yesterday, for almost one million people out of a total of 11 million residents in the city, where at the end of 2019 it materialized for the first time at the end of 2019 nightmare of Covid-19: the authorities of the district of Jiangxia, after the ascertainment of four asymptomatic cases, have made three days of "temporary control measures".
In the most high-risk areas there is an obligation to stay at home, in those at medium risk the possibility of leaving remains limited to the areas of the respective residential districts.
All entertainment venues from bars to cinemas, from internet cafes to small clinics and agricultural product markets are closed.
All public transport, from buses to the metro, is also suspended, while residents cannot leave the district except for absolute necessity.
Authorities have identified four high-risk areas with a no-go home and four other designated medium-risk areas that prevent residents from leaving their complexes.
The measures aim to "further reduce the flow of people, the risk of infections and to achieve 'dynamic zero-Covid' in the shortest possible time", according to the contents of a note.
Wuhan, the industrial and transportation hub of Hubei's capital, imposed the world's first two-month lockdown against Covid in early 2020 to contain the novel coronavirus after initially downplaying its reach and silencing health workers who attempted to sound alarms. .
In August 2020, with much of the world struggling with pandemic, Wuhan made headlines internationally when an electronic music festival in an outdoor water park was held, with thousands of people partying without masks or social distancing measures.
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