{"id":1116027,"date":"2021-12-13T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1116027"},"modified":"2021-12-13T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:13:36","slug":"china-bans-officials-in-olympics-neighborhood-from-fleeing-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-bans-officials-in-olympics-neighborhood-from-fleeing-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans Officials in Olympics Neighborhood from Fleeing Coronavirus Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-bans-officials-in-olympics-neighborhood-from-fleeing-coronavirus-outbreak%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=1116027&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/oly-beijing-us-police-officer-wearing-mask-goggles-protect-covid-19-stands-poster-of-sk-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China announced over the weekend that it would ban local officials and staffers in Zhangjiakou, the suburb of Beijing scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, from leaving the area without \u201capproval.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The edict came down presumably because the spectacle of government officials fleeing from the coronavirus surge in the area would be embarrassing and damaging to the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) false narrative of complete victory over the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that it created.<\/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>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1241300.shtml\">strove<\/a> to put the happiest possible face on the travel restrictions for the \u201cEconomic and Technological Development Zone of Zhangjiakou,\u201d bizarrely applauding the wisdom of \u201cexperts\u201d who told local officials to \u201cavoid a one-size-fits-all approach\u201d while announcing those officials will henceforth need permission from higher authorities before daring to leave their city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The same announcement also instructed local officials to \u201cdissuade relatives and friends from medium- and high-risk areas from coming to Zhangjiakou.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senior officials issued similar orders for two other regions experiencing coronavirus surges, while the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>said several universities in Beijing have voluntarily decided to begin winter vacations early so they can shut down during the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3561643835616\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three places issued notices urging citizens to stay put during the upcoming Spring Festival to prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> resurgence. Experts say it is still too early to decide if such policies will be adopted by more places<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fTh2vBDVf2\">https:\/\/t.co\/fTh2vBDVf2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1470015983674806275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The fear among Chinese health officials is that travel during the upcoming holiday season could spread the coronavirus, creating a major health crisis before the Olympics begin on February 4:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><span>\u201cAs the risks of domestic coronavirus transmission may increase during the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival, greater efforts should be made in controlling the pandemic through a science-based and targeted approach to make sure of a healthy and safe festival for all Chinese people,\u201d said Wu Liangyou, a deputy director of the National Health Commission, at a press conference on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert at Peking University First Hospital, told the Global Times on Sunday that it is still too early to decide whether other places should follow suit in asking residents to stay put during the Chinese New Year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cChina emphasizes precise pandemic control based on different conditions in different regions instead of implementing the same policy across the nation. The precise pandemic control reflects the balance China tries to keep between preventing the pandemic from spreading and guaranteeing people a&nbsp; normal life, \u201d said Wang.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Heavy travel during the Lunar New Year season \u2013 which includes the largest migration wave in the world each year, as 300 million traveling workers return home to visit their families \u2013 was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/03\/22\/world\/coronavirus-spread.html\">major factor<\/a> in the early spread of the coronavirus. Even after Chinese officials shut down internal travel from Ground Zero of the pandemic in Wuhan in early 2020, they notoriously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/Whathappensif\/how-china-locked-down-internally-for-covid-19-but-pushed-foreign-travel\/\">permitted<\/a> foreign travel for months afterward, spreading Chinese coronavirus around the world. China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/28\/world\/asia\/china-coronavirus-new-year.html\">sharply restricted<\/a> travel during Lunar New Year 2021, all but canceling the holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The worst \u201chotspots\u201d in the current coronavirus surge are located in eastern China. A dozen companies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3159544\/coronavirus-cases-rise-chinas-delta-hotspots-zhejiang\"><span>reportedly<\/span><\/a><span> suspended operations in the city of Zhejiang on Monday at the request of local officials, while other cities are deploying mass coronavirus testing and portable labs, even though each of these municipalities has supposedly detected less than a dozen cases of the \u201cDelta variant\u201d of Chinese coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese health officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-vaccinates-over-80-its-people-against-covid-19-2021-12-11\/\"><span>claimed<\/span><\/a><span> on Saturday that over 82 percent of the country\u2019s 1.41 billion inhabitants have now been vaccinated against the coronavirus. The vaccination rate was said to be much lower for vulnerable elderly Chinese, falling to less than 30 percent for people over 80 in some areas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China announced over the weekend that it would ban local officials and staffers in Zhangjiakou, the suburb of Beijing scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, from leaving the area &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}