{"id":1205720,"date":"2022-01-10T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205720"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:04:40","slug":"coronavirus-beijing-neighbor-tianjin-bans-15-million-people-from-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-beijing-neighbor-tianjin-bans-15-million-people-from-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Beijing Neighbor Tianjin Bans 15 Million People from Leaving"},"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%2Fcoronavirus-beijing-neighbor-tianjin-bans-15-million-people-from-leaving%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=1205720&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\/2022\/01\/virus-outbreak-china-worker-wearing-protective-suit-gestures-of-people-at-covid-19-testing-site-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese Communist Party authorities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220110\/a43840b5e325484ba2d3d98f144aa9b9\/c.html\">forbade<\/a> all of Tianjin\u2019s 15 million residents from leaving the city Sunday in an effort to contain the municipality\u2019s recent Chinese coronavirus epidemic, which threatens to affect neighboring Beijing just 25 days before it is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin residents must present a negative Chinese coronavirus test result taken within 48 hours of their intended departure and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/chinas-tianjin-tightens-control-over-travel-after-omicron-cases-2022-01-10\/\">receive<\/a> special permission for travel from their employer or a local Communist Party authority before they will be allowed to leave Tianjin. The new rule went into effect on the evening of January 9 and will last indefinitely.<\/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>\u201cCitizens with fever are not allowed to leave Tianjin or enter Beijing, the Chinese capital neighboring virus-hit Tianjin, until the risk of infection has been ruled out,\u201d Xinhua, China\u2019s official state-run press agency, revealed January 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city also strengthened checks on resident[s] traveling to Beijing by setting check points and special channels at highways and transportation stations,\u201d the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1245409.shtml\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin government officials imposed the new travel restrictions on locals after China\u2019s National Health Commission detected a surge in the city\u2019s coronavirus caseload. Tianjin recorded 21 new coronavirus infections on January 9, up from just three cases 24 hours earlier on January 8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">North China&#8217;s Tianjin Municipality reported 31 locally transmitted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> cases and 10 asymptomatic ones in the latest resurgence <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v7Cj6mJodo\">https:\/\/t.co\/v7Cj6mJodo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q6jmoCuhqt\">pic.twitter.com\/q6jmoCuhqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China Xinhua News (@XHNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XHNews\/status\/1480524195805151234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tianjin serves as a major commuter city for Beijing. A high-speed train takes roughly 30 minutes to travel from Tianjin to Beijing and is a common mode of transport for commuters. A local railway authority \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202201\/10\/WS61dbe623a310cdd39bc8025c.html\">suspended<\/a>\u201d all train ticket sales from Tianjin to Beijing on Sunday afternoon according to&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>, a newspaper owned by the publicity department of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin Communist Party officials began a mandatory mass testing scheme for the Chinese coronavirus on January 9 allegedly for all of the city\u2019s 15 million residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of Saturday night [January 8], Tianjin had quarantined 75,680 people,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> revealed on January 9. The cryptic report suggests Tianjin residents who test positive for the Chinese coronavirus as part of the city\u2019s required testing stratagem may be forced to enter a state-run quarantine facility as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin\u2019s proximity to Beijing threatens the Chinese national capital\u2019s public health mere weeks before the 2022 Winter Olympics. The Games are scheduled to take place in Beijing from February 3 to February 20. Tianjin is itself a significant port city home to international commerce and relations. Chinese Communist Party officials recently chose Tianjin as a worthy substitute for Beijing when hosting several foreign delegations, including those from the U.S., during diplomatic meetings throughout 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city is also one of north China\u2019s most important oil and gas terminals, is a production base for European planemaker Airbus and hosts data storage centers for Chinese technology firms such as Tencent,\u201d Reuters noted on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist Party authorities forbade all of Tianjin\u2019s 15 million residents from leaving the city Sunday in an effort to contain the municipality\u2019s recent Chinese coronavirus epidemic, which threatens to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-1205720","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\/1205720","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205720\/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=1205720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}