{"id":1209296,"date":"2022-01-11T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1209296"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:35","slug":"coronavirus-panic-china-locks-down-another-5-5-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-panic-china-locks-down-another-5-5-million-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Panic: China Locks Down Another 5.5 Million People"},"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\">18<\/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-panic-china-locks-down-another-5-5-million-people%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=1209296&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\/GettyImages-1363758226-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Local Communist Party authorities in Anyang, China, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220111\/4909592f19e6455995d5c51961b38432\/c.html\">ordered<\/a> all of the city\u2019s 5.5 million residents to observe strict stay-at-home orders in a notice issued Monday evening after health officials detected an increase in Anyang\u2019s Chinese coronavirus caseload, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyang\u2019s municipal government on January 10 \u201cissued orders to ban all vehicles from roads and required all residents to stay put while an epidemiological investigation is underway,\u201d according to Xinhua, which is China\u2019s official state-run press agency.<\/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>\u201cCurrently, all supermarkets in the city have suspended business other than selling daily necessities. Shops have been closed and take-out services have also been suspended,\u201d the report revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyang\u2019s health department said it recorded 58 new Chinese coronavirus infections on January 11. The additional cases <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/millions-more-locked-down-china-033321658.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\">increased<\/a> the community\u2019s caseload of the disease to 84 since January 8, according to state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city set up health monitoring points at every entrance and exit; suspended ticket sales for trains and buses that go out of the city, and ordered taxis and ride-hailing vehicles not to go out,\u201d China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1245573.shtml\">reported<\/a> of Anyang on January 10.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Anyang Communist Party officials said they halted all travel out of the prefecture-level city on January 10 to \u201censure that the outbreak does not spill over into outside areas.\u201d Anyang is the northernmost city of China\u2019s Henan province. The community of Anyang borders China\u2019s northern Hebei province, which surrounds the Chinese national capital, Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s eagerness to prevent a coronavirus spillover in Beijing prompted Anyang party affiliates to forcibly quarantine at least \u201c1,495 close contacts\u201d of confirmed Chinese coronavirus patients in the city as of January 10, according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from February 4 to February 20. Communist Party officials say they will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/10\/beijing-tells-locals-not-help-genocide-olympics-vehicles-if-crash-contain-coronavirus\/\">impose<\/a> a \u201cclosed-loop\u201d management system on all participants of the Games, including both athletes and staff, to help create a coronavirus-free bubble within Beijing during the event. Beijing has a population of nearly 21 million and promises to draw at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1237848.shtml\">20,000<\/a> volunteers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2022\/01\/03\/beijing-winter-olympics-preview-COVID-19\/1171639766089\/\">2,900<\/a> international athletes to the Chinese national capital to participate in the Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting Tuesday [January 4], thousands of Games-related staff, volunteers, cleaners, cooks and coach drivers will be cocooned for weeks in the so-called \u2018closed loop\u2019 with no direct physical access to the outside world,\u201d Agence France-Presse (AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/beijing-china-olympics-2022-covid-19-bubble-2414136\">reported<\/a> on January 4 when Beijing launched preparations for its parallel Olympic universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone entering the bubble must be fully vaccinated or face a 21-day quarantine when they touch down, and everyone inside will be tested daily and must wear face masks at all times,\u201d according to the news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing transit officials have created a separate metro system specifically for participants of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The project includes \u201cdedicated transport between venues with \u2026 high-speed rail systems,\u201d&nbsp;AFP revealed on January 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Communist Party authorities in Anyang, China, ordered all of the city\u2019s 5.5 million residents to observe strict stay-at-home orders in a notice issued Monday evening after health officials detected &#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-1209296","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\/1209296","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=1209296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209296\/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=1209296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}