The Chinese city at the heart of the Covid pandemic has been plunged back into lockdown as more than 800,000 people in Wuhan have been told to stay at home until the end of the week. The Mail has more.
Authorities have reintroduced the draconian restriction – even though the city is only recording around 25 cases a day. At least 200 million people in 28 cities across China are living under lockdown curbs, such as stay-at-home orders, mass testing and shop closures.
China today logged 1,000 cases for the third day in a row – a tiny figure compared to standards in other countries. Beijing’s brutal ‘Zero-Covid’ approach has seen it plagued by aggressive restrictions for almost three years now, leaving people quarantined for months at a time. Other nations that originally pursued the economically-crippling regime have resorted to living with the virus, which is much milder now than when the pandemic began.
Statistics from Oxford University-backed research platform Our World in Data show that China logged 1,412 infections on October 26th, up 51% in a week.
However, the figure is tiny in comparison to the nation’s 1.4billion population. It means just 0.76 cases are being logged per million people.
For comparison, European nations are living restriction-free despite recording hundreds of cases [per million]. Rates are highest in Germany (781), followed by France (612) and Italy (553). The U.K. is registering around 120 positive tests per million people, while rates are similar in the U.S. (108). However, the figures are highly swayed by how many people are being tested in each country per day – with nations that test fewer people reporting fewer cases.
As of October 24th, people in 28 cities in China were subject to varying degrees of lockdown measures. Wuhan, where Covid was first detected in late 2019, logged 20 to 25 new infections per day this week.
One Wuhan resident said: “I don’t know what to do. If we can still survive living like this then I suppose that’s what we’ll do. When we see these news stories about Covid, we now feel a bit numb. We feel numb to it all. We feel more and more numb.”
Officials have also banned the sale of pork in parts of the city, according to images and posts on social media, after one case was linked to the local pork supply chain.
A wet market in the city is thought to be the source of the Covid outbreak. Several workers and shoppers at the Huanan Seafood Market came down with the mystery flu-like virus. However, some believe the virus leaked from the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was working extensively on bat coronaviruses at the time.
Meanwhile, Guangzhou, China’s fourth-biggest city by economic output, imposed restrictions on further streets and neighbourhoods as people were told to stay in their homes. Other large cities including Zhengzhou, Datong and Xian have implemented new curbs in response to local outbreaks. In Beijing, the Universal Resort theme park was shut on Wednesday after one visitor tested positive for the coronavirus.
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3 weeks to flatten the curve.
But not in the part of China governed by the CCP traitors. So much for it ending with the finish of the Great People’s Conference Thingy and the not quite installment of Jumping Jim as president for life.
“But you said that 3 years ago!”
“Did we? Well, we have this thing where we say things that we don’t really mean”.
Sadly, more like 3 years to flatten the population
Three weeks to flatten Xi’s opponents.
Remember the scientists/politicians arguing for a chinese approach?? Oh one of those pieces of human slime is chancellor.
And the other is PM.
Sino Sunak by name, Sino Sunak by nature.
Whose name I will not utter here in line with my longstanding policy of avoiding certain highly offensive words…
“A wet market in the city is thought to be the source of the Covid outbreak”
No Daily Mail reporter, I think you’ve been had.
“…the virus, which is much milder now than when the pandemic began.”
So, the virus is now milder than mild. So, very mild. So very, very mild. So mild, it is milder than a mild thing.
As mild as three years’ supply of Midazolam dished out in nursing homes up and down the country in the three months at the start of the “pandemic”, though? I think not. I think very not.
Today, I yearn for revenge. Tomorrow, I may feel calmer. But forgive and forget I will never.
Because it’s all about a virus, don’tcha know? It’s all about a virus…🙄
It is truly Fairy Liquid.
Oh wait a moment, that’s a hate speech non-crime hate incident…
Well all I can say is; that’s excellent progress and an inspiration to us all. China leading the world in exemplary fashion! They’re playing out 2020 on a loop, ad infinitum.
Yep.
Indeed, it’s Great Leap Forward 2.0! Which really means one step forward and ten steps back, just like the first time.
They are now a perpetual living time capsule of 2020.
Living, actually probably dying, history.
From ‘Reclaim the Net,’ – Japan is pushing Digital ID and threatening citizens with loss of Health Insurance if they fail to sign up.
This is the start of The Big Push.
I posted this in Roundup but probably appropriate here considering the above.
Austria:
Digital ID “prevents identity theft and puts a stop to cybercafé. The Digital driver’s license as the first digital ID in Austria is a milestone on the way in to digitization. I invite you – use the ID Austria and use the digital driver’s license.”
How many more before the week is out?
And abolishes freedom.
Maybe the “Down With Rhodes” people should redirect their efforts?
You’ve got to laugh. I was talking to someone at work about team Christmas lunch today. Last year it was arranged very last minute but that was OK because there were plenty of spaces in restaurants because (his words) “Covid cases were rising”. So I searched the ONS estimates for “covid cases” for last December and compared them to now. Apparently we’re running at TWICE the number of infections now compared to last December but my colleague probably thinks covid has more or less disappeared as he hasn’t seen any headlines about it. Pathetic.
One on the BBC if you’re desperate – “Covid protests in Tibet” (“hundreds demonstrating”).
Remind me where these muppets were for the huge anti-lockdpwn and anti-“vaccine” mandate protests…
And there are no tests specifically designed for COVID-19. Never have been.
And 10% of global Covid deaths are now happening in Germany.
Is the virus that deadly to Germans, or is that also entirely subjective and due to how cases and tolls are attributed and counted aka manipulated by the authorities?
Everyone with a functioning BS detector knows the answer.
I feel for the Chinese. Originally I thought it was a ruse by them to weaken the West, and it played out as such and worked very well for almost 2 years.
But then, The Dictator decided to take and make it, aka winning the international Covid statistics pi**ing contest, personal, by letting his people fight against windmills.
At least he didn’t poison them with mRNA goo, yet.
With a bit of luck this madness will choke off Chinese economic growth and consequent sabre rattling. As Xi Jinping will find out, it’s all very well being a Paramount leader when things are going well and you claim all the credit. It’s not such a comfy place when your rulings go tits up.
Collapsing all of the world’s economies is a brilliant precursor to forcing CBDC on the world, marketed to the masses as The Solution to the problems which the idiots in charge have caused.
That’s the game plan BB.
I can’t be alone in thinking that Xi and his gang will only stop the torture when they are faced with a mass suicide event.
When will we see the complete absence of Chinese goods that we have all become reliant on? Is this what locking down 200 million people is really all about? Because nothing else really makes sense.