China is reportedly facing its worst Covid crisis since early 2020 when an entire population was locked down to contain the virus in Wuhan and its surrounding province.
Now, two years on, covid is seeing tens of millions of people forced into lockdown again, this time in the entire northeastern province of Jilin and the southern cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan.
ABC news reports: China, the last major country to relentlessly pursue a Covid-zero policy, reported 1,437 cases across dozens of cities on Monday. That’s a fourfold jump in a week.
Although record case numbers are testing the resilience of China’s no-tolerance approach, there is no sign the country is willing to pivot to ‘living with the virus.”
The epicenter of the omicron variant outbreak is the Northeastern Jilin province, where 895 cases were recorded, but there are also outbreaks and containment measures in place Shanghai, the financial powerhouse, and Shenzhen, the southern tech hub.
Authorities announced on Monday afternoon that all 24 million people in Jilin province would go into lockdown, including the previously locked down city of Changchun. It’s the first provincial lockdown since Wuhan and Hubei in January 2020.
On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.
As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere.
The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley. It’s home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country’s key ports.
Professor Heiwai Tang at Hong Kong University told ABC News that he doesn’t expect these week-long lockdowns to have a significant impact on the country’s gross domestic product.
“It seems the lockdowns will be shorter this time with more tracking, which means a short disruption of work and production,” Tang said. “If it ends up lasting for weeks it’s another issue, including inflation risks.”
Professor Michael Song from Hong Kong’s Chinese University estimated that the two-month lockdown in Wuhan cost China 2% of its GDP.
There’s immense pressure on local authorities to contain the virus, with state media reporting that the Jilin City mayor and the head of the Changchun city health commission were dismissed from their roles over the weekend.
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“51 Million Forced Into Lockdown As Covid Returns to China” without having even a virus and a test that is pure fraud.
It’s probably the pretext again for the other political whores in the world to follow China and slaughter their own population further with crap aka “vaccines”.
Keep the fear alive! Disinformation is a play on psychological warfare. The facts are: Ivermectin stops the Covid virus. It is very inexpensive. If the virus has been released again, then China should give out Ivermectin like candy. Moreover, Hydroxychloroquine works too.
Psychological Warfare is the charge against the CCP.