{"id":1070521,"date":"2021-11-30T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1070521"},"modified":"2021-11-30T22:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:59:03","slug":"china-halts-travel-in-northern-city-as-coronavirus-fiasco-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-halts-travel-in-northern-city-as-coronavirus-fiasco-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"China Halts Travel in Northern City as Coronavirus Fiasco Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-halts-travel-in-northern-city-as-coronavirus-fiasco-continues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1070521&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Chinese city of Manzhouli, located in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region along the Russian border, on Monday announced the suspension of all plane, train, bus, and taxi travel \u2013 ostensibly because 60 positive coronavirus tests came back after a round of city-wide nucleic acid testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1240205.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>reported that the Communist Party ordered mass testing on Saturday because 28 coronavirus cases were detected during the current coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>When 60 positive test results came back, the city imposed round-the-clock inspections at every travel checkpoint and banned residents other than medical and delivery personnel from leaving town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Manzhouli is an important \u201cland port,\u201d a city through which a great deal of railroad and truck traffic passes. Locking these cities down completely would severely disrupt regional travel and shipping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOf the outbreaks reported in China over the past few months, several have been associated with land border cities. The two main threads of the recent wave started in Ejin Banner in Inner Mongolia and Heihe, Northeast China\u2019s Heilongjiang Province, both land border ports with cross-border trade, or where migrating wild animals could cross the border,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18946658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236903417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18946658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236903417-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Residents queue for nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Manzhouli in China\u2019s northern Inner Mongolia region. (STR\/CNS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>China\u2019s National Health Commission <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/chinese-border-cities-limit-rail-imports-amid-covid-19-outbreak-north-2346716\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> on Tuesday that it would halt non-container commodity imports by rail in several outbreak cities, including Manzhouli. Non-container commodities include coal, fertilizer, and other goods transported in bulk that require extensive human interaction to load and unload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The focus on border cities in Chinese state media coverage helps perpetuate the narrative that all of these coronavirus outbreaks are caused by foreign sources. The draconian responses taken by Chinese municipalities are incongruous with the extremely small number of coronavirus infections and positive tests officially reported by Chinese officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite these heavy-handed measures taken in cities that supposedly only have a few dozen potential coronavirus infections to worry about, China\u2019s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confidently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1240256.shtml\"><span>predicted<\/span><\/a><span> on Tuesday that Chinese vaccines will be effective in controlling the latest outbreak, even if it includes the much-discussed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/scientists-scramble-to-understand-covid-19-omicron-what-we-know\/\"><span>Omicron variant<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese vaccines have proven <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/07\/chinas-sinovac-urges-third-dose-of-its-low-quality-vaccine\/\"><span>questionable<\/span><\/a><span> when used anywhere the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cannot control the data on their effectiveness, leading some foreign customers to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/10\/18\/thailand-to-discontinue-chinese-coronavirus-vaccines\/\"><span>stop using them<\/span><\/a><span>, and the manufacturers of more reliable vaccines have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/moderna-boss-warns-against-omicron-vaccine-struggle\/\"><span>expressed concerns<\/span><\/a><span> about how much protection they can offer against Omicron without modifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Cities like Manzhouli have not divulged how many of their coronavirus cases involve the Omicron variant, but China\u2019s CDC claimed its existing test kits can reliably detect the new mutation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18946722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236903115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18946722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236903115-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>The Communist Party ordered mass testing on Saturday because 28 coronavirus cases were detected during the current coronavirus outbreak.<\/span> (STR\/CNS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>On Sunday, China\u2019s CDC published a report prepared by Peking University mathematicians that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-study-warns-colossal-covid-outbreak-if-it-opens-up-like-us-france-2021-11-28\/\"><span>predicted<\/span><\/a><span> an explosion of over 630,000 coronavirus infections per day if China relaxes its restrictions on foreign travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More specifically, and in keeping with the communists\u2019 dubious claim to have utterly conquered the Chinese coronavirus, the report claimed China would suffer up to 630,000 new cases a day if it abandoned its flawless pandemic protocols and adopted the policies embraced by the United States, Europe, or Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur findings have raised a clear warning that, for the time being, we are not ready to embrace \u2018open-up\u2019 strategies resting solely on the hypothesis of herd immunity induced by vaccination advocated by certain western countries,\u201d the mathematicians said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese city of Manzhouli, located in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region along the Russian border, on Monday announced the suspension of all plane, train, bus, and taxi travel \u2013 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