{"id":937189,"date":"2021-10-29T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937189"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:05","slug":"china-struggles-with-coronavirus-panic-on-both-north-and-south-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-struggles-with-coronavirus-panic-on-both-north-and-south-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"China Struggles with Coronavirus Panic on Both North and South Borders"},"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\">22<\/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-struggles-with-coronavirus-panic-on-both-north-and-south-borders%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=937189&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\">The Chinese Communist Party has imposed coronavirus lockdowns in recent days on residents near both the country\u2019s southern borders \u2014 near Myanmar \u2014 and northern borders \u2014 near Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of Ruili residents posted complaints on social media platforms broadcasting a press conference by city officials to address Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] control on Tuesday [October 26],\u201d the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em> (<em>SCMP<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3153911\/ruili-chinas-gateway-myanmar-hit-dual-hardships-coronavirus-and\">reported<\/a> October 28. \u201cSome said their patience and savings had run out because there was \u2018no light at the end of the tunnel\u2019 after the city had endured more than 200 days in lockdown.\u201d<\/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>Ruili is located in southwestern China\u2019s Yunnan province along the country\u2019s border with Myanmar. The frontier city\u2019s economy \u2014 reliant on cross-border trade between China and Myanmar \u2014 has been dormant since March, when Beijing ordered the shutdown of the Jiegao border bridge, a major trade and travel link between China and Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuili\u2019s streets are now deserted after China imposed strict Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] prevention measures along its border with Myanmar in March, including closing the Jiegao bridge, repatriating immigrants found to be in the city illegally, erecting barbed-wire fences on the border, and enforcing a prolonged lockdown of Ruili,\u201d <em>SCMP<\/em> recalled on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18396890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/October-20.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18396890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/October-20.jpeg\" alt=\"A resident undergoes a nucleic acid test for the coronavirus in Xian in China&#039;s northern Shaanxi province on October 20, 2021. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident undergoes a nucleic acid test for the coronavirus in Xian in China\u2019s northern Shaanxi province on October 20, 2021. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ruili\u2019s deputy mayor, Yang Mou, said on October 26, the city \u201cwould not relax the containment measures because the pandemic prevention and control situation in Ruili remained \u2018severe and complex,&#8217;\u201d <em>SCMP<\/em> relayed.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/07\/05\/china-southern-city-communist-superspreader\/\">echoing<\/a> an official narrative promoted by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, blamed Ruili\u2019s coronavirus cases on the city\u2019s \u201cproximity to Myanmar,\u201d implying that they were largely imported despite the months-long closure of Jiegao bridge.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s continued lockdowns in Ruili come as the Communist Party has increasingly ordered other Chinese cities to seal off their own residential communities in response to a nationwide coronavirus resurgence that began on October 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother major port city in Northeast China\u2019s Heilongjiang Province, Heihe, bordering Russia in the north, was urgently put under a citywide lockdown on Thursday after one confirmed COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] case was found,\u201d the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237511.shtml\">reported<\/a> on October 28. \u201cIt is the third city that has imposed such rules in the latest rebound of the epidemic in China, following China-Mongolia border city Ejin Banner and Northwest China\u2019s transport hub Lanzhou. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidential communities and rural villages in Heihe will close off, leaving only one entry-exit that allows one person per household to pass once every two days, given that the neighborhoods have not reported confirmed COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] cases,\u201d according to the newspaper. \u201cGathering activities are also canceled and banned across the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18475002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/China-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18475002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/China-2.jpeg\" alt=\"A man carries a child, both wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, walk on a street in Beijing, September 12, 2021. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man carries a child, both wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, walk on a street in Beijing, September 12, 2021. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTraffic control will be in place, suspending all bus and taxi services, the notice said, adding that vehicles and personnel are not allowed to leave the city,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The CCP says it traced China\u2019s latest coronavirus epidemic to a Chinese tour group that traveled from Shanghai to China\u2019s Inner Mongolia autonomous region in early October. Beijing claims the tour group\u2019s members contracted the Chinese coronavirus from an unspecified foreign source during their travels within Inner Mongolia, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/27\/china-regime-records-daily-high-in-coronavirus-cases\/\">spread<\/a> the infections nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe China-Mongolia border city of Ejin Banner in North China\u2019s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, one of the hard-hit regions that came under the spotlight for being the suspected source of the transmission chain in the latest COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] flare-ups, tightened lockdown management for stranded tourists and local residents on Wednesday [October 27],\u201d according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Communist Party has imposed coronavirus lockdowns in recent days on residents near both the country\u2019s southern borders \u2014 near Myanmar \u2014 and northern borders \u2014 near Russia. \u201cThousands &#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-937189","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\/937189","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=937189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937189\/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=937189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}