The city of Beijing has again put about 1.7 million inhabitants of the Daxing district, south of the capital, in lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), informed the spokesman of the City, Xu Hejian, this Wednesday (20). "The cases detected in Daxing raise the alert that the epidemic situation is hard and complex. We cannot reduce the prevention of imported cases and the resumption of domestic ones," added Xu. The situation is even more complicated in five apartment complexes in the district, residents have been prevented leaving the house as of today. Students must also remain in their homes. In this residential, according to the authorities, cases of the British variant of Sars-CoV-2, which are considered more transmissible, were also detected. This was the reason for the extreme isolation applied at the site. Public places were also closed, including office buildings, hotels, restaurants, factories and supermarkets. The government has announced that all residents will be tested for the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. In addition to isolating the district, Beijing has also extended the period of restrictions for those arriving abroad to 28 days, with 14 days to be spent in isolation in government centers and another seven in isolation at home. In the past seven days, the government has asked the person not to attend any kind of public meeting. The tactic of isolating districts has been applied in several districts of the capital and other Chinese cities, as an option to not put entire cities on lockdown. Recently, the same strategy was adopted in the Shunyi district, also in Beijing, and in three cities in Hebei province. Another major concern is that the Chinese celebrate their New Year on February 12, on a holiday that causes the world's largest temporary migration in the week leading up to the event. The government is asking citizens to avoid displacement this year because of the pandemic. China has been experiencing an increase in cases between the months of December and January, at levels that resemble the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. In Beijing, there were 15 new contagions in the period and in the country there are already more than a thousand cases since the beginning of January. .
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