{"id":938391,"date":"2021-10-29T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938391"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:59:10","slug":"coronavirus-panic-china-quarantines-entire-trains-heading-into-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-panic-china-quarantines-entire-trains-heading-into-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Panic: China Quarantines Entire Trains Heading into Beijing"},"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-quarantines-entire-trains-heading-into-beijing%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=938391&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\">Chinese health authorities ordered two high-speed trains bound for Beijing to \u201curgently stop\u201d on Thursday so they could place all passengers and staff under a seven-day quarantine, saying they suspected \u201cclose contacts of a positive COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] case were onboard,\u201d the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237630.shtml\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>China Railway Shanghai Group received a notice from East China\u2019s Shandong Province Thursday afternoon saying a confirmed coronavirus patient \u201chad boarded a train on October 18, and that two crew members were also on board during the same trip.\u201d The provincial authorities said the two crew members in question were on board the Beijing-bound \u201cG14 high-speed train from Shanghai and G108 from Jiaxing in East China\u2019s Zhejiang Province\u201d on Thursday, October 28.<\/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>\u201cCiting health concerns, the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention asked the G14 and G108 to immediately stop at the nearest train station, and screen all people onboard for potential COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] infections,\u201d according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe test results came on Friday morning [October 29], reporting all 344 passengers and the two crew members negative for COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus],\u201d local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the negative test results, Beijing health officials have ordered all passengers and crew of both trains to remain in a state-controlled quarantine \u201cat a designated hotel in Jinan in Shandong [province]\u201d until at least next week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18522602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Train-China.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18522602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Train-China.jpeg\" alt=\"Passengers prepare to board their train at the Hangzhou East railway station in Hangzhou, in China&#039;s eastern Zhejiang province on October 20, 2021. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers prepare to board their train at the Hangzhou East railway station in Hangzhou, in China\u2019s eastern Zhejiang province, on October 20, 2021. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cQuarantine will last for at least seven days, and two or three more nucleic acid tests will be taken,\u201d a passenger of the G14 train from Shanghai to Beijing surnamed Cui told the <em>Global Times<\/em> on October 29.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/25\/coronavirus-forces-china-to-postpone-beijing-marathon\/\">restricted<\/a> travel nationwide and issued lockdown orders across several major cities since October 17, when state health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/20\/china-promotes-booster-shots-coronavirus\/\">detected<\/a> the first positive coronavirus case in the nation\u2019s latest epidemic of the disease. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have said the outbreak traces to a tour group from Shanghai that traveled to China\u2019s Inner Mongolia autonomous region in early-to-mid October. According to the CCP, members of the Chinese tour group contracted coronavirus from foreign sources in Inner Mongolia without providing any evidence of contacts abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts believe that the Ceke Port of Ejin Banner [in Inner Mongolia] is the most likely source of the virus through personnel and goods exchanges with the neighboring country of Mongolia,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237579.shtml\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday. Mainstream <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/06\/cdc-risk-of-contracting-coronavirus-from-contaminated-surfaces-lowcdc-risk-of-contracting-coronavirus-from-contaminated-surfaces-low\/\">scientists<\/a> do not consider coronavirus spread through contact with contaminated surfaces to be a significant mode of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>China documented 48 new, locally transmitted coronavirus cases on October 28, bringing the total number of new infections to 326 since October 17. Beijing, China\u2019s national capital, reported 27 new locally transmitted cases of the virus as of October 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese health authorities ordered two high-speed trains bound for Beijing to \u201curgently stop\u201d on Thursday so they could place all passengers and staff under a seven-day quarantine, saying they suspected &#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-938391","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\/938391","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=938391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938391\/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=938391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}