{"id":1301967,"date":"2022-02-16T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1301967"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:22:57","slug":"shanghai-neighbor-shuts-15-highway-entrances-in-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shanghai-neighbor-shuts-15-highway-entrances-in-coronavirus-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Neighbor Shuts 15 Highway Entrances in Coronavirus Lockdown"},"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\">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%2Fshanghai-neighbor-shuts-15-highway-entrances-in-coronavirus-lockdown%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=1301967&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\">Suzhou, a Chinese industrial hub located 49 miles west of Shanghai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/major-chinese-industrial-city-steps-up-covid-control-bosch-affected-2022-02-15\/\">shut down<\/a> 15 of its highway entrances on Tuesday as city officials scrambled to contain a local Chinese coronavirus epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Tuesday it [Suzhou] closed 15 highway entrances and required drivers and passengers leaving through others to have proof of negative test results within 48 hours,\u201d Reuters reported on February 15.<\/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>Suzhou began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/15\/china-imposes-local-ban-on-anti-cough-drugs-locks-down-city-of-10-million-over-coronavirus\/\">restricting<\/a> travel out of the city on Monday when local Chinese Communist Party officials forbade all of Suzhou\u2019s residents from leaving the community for nonessential reasons. The decision came after health authorities allegedly detected just eight new Chinese coronavirus cases among Suzhou\u2019s population of 10.72 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuzhou residents are required to stay home, avoid gathering and wear masks. They are asked to avoid leaving the city unless it is absolutely necessary,\u201d Shine, <em>Shanghai Daily<\/em>\u2018s online news platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shine.cn\/news\/metro\/2202141873\/\">reported<\/a> on February 14.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19901186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238519351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19901186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238519351-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Residents queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a residential area in Suzhou in China\u2019s eastern Jiangsu province on February 16, 2022. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Officials in charge of Shanghai\u2019s Metro Line 11, which links the metropolis of nearly 25 million to Suzhou, halted some of the rail line\u2019s service on February 14. The metro suspension extended to all bus and subway lines connecting Shanghai to Suzhou and remains in place indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Suzhou, like Shanghai, serves as a vital tech industry center for China. The city hosts roughly 100,000 multinational companies and manufacturing plants in its Industrial Park. Foreign firms such as Samsung (a South Korean electronics giant), United Microelectronics Corporation (a Taiwanese semiconductor company), Eli Lilly (a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company), and Bosch (a German multinational engineering and tech company) maintain factories in Suzhou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect a short-term impact on our manufacturing and logistics operations in Suzhou,\u201d Bosch said in a statement to Reuters on February 14. A company spokesman further revealed \u201clocal office staffers were working from home.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19901194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238519466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19901194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238519466-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This aerial photo taken on February 16, 2022 shows residents queueing to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus outside a residental area in Suzhou in China\u2019s eastern Jiangsu province. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s United Microelectronics Corporation said on February 14 its \u201c8-inch wafer fabrication subsidiary in Suzhou had temporarily suspended production because of a suspected COVID [Chinese coronavirus] infection,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Suzhou health officials claimed they detected just 12 new Chinese coronavirus infections in the city on February 14, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.nhc.gov.cn\/2022-02\/15\/c_85822.htm\">report<\/a> by China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) on February 15. The NHC said it recorded eight&nbsp;symptomatic and four asymptomatic coronavirus cases in Suzhou on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Suzhou\u2019s government on February 13 suspended some medical services in the city \u2014 including outpatient and emergency medical services at several hospitals \u2014 as part of Suzhou\u2019s lockdown. Communist Party officials closed all kindergartens, primary schools, and middle schools in Suzhou on February 14 to support the emergency health measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Suzhou] Schools will delay their new semesters, while all training institutes have been closed,\u201d Shine reported on February 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzhou, a Chinese industrial hub located 49 miles west of Shanghai, shut down 15 of its highway entrances on Tuesday as city officials scrambled to contain a local Chinese coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1301967","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\/1301967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301967\/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=1301967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}