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China locks up city of Xi'an, locks itself in zero Covid strategy

2022-01-03T17:48:51.919Z


STORY - In the former imperial city, 13 million inhabitants are no longer allowed to leave their homes.


Correspondent in Asia

Stupor and growls in Xi'an. The 13 million inhabitants of the former Chinese imperial capital are assigned to stand still in the face of the Covid, in the footsteps of the terracotta army that made the city famous. Some dare to complain that they have even been prohibited from going out and stretching their legs at the bottom of their building since December 22, according to the iron rules of the most radical confinement in China, since that of Wuhan, at the beginning. of the pandemic. “

We've been stuck at home for almost two weeks, but every day we have to get tested. We have no food supply. I don't know when this will end

», Thus laments on the Wechat messaging an inhabitant of this metropolis in the center-west of the country.

Since December 27, families no longer even have the right to send a member of their household to shop, and the food supply organized by the authorities has come under fire.

You can't imagine!

At 5 o'clock in the ...

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Source: lefigaro

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