Chinese city completely closed for sanitation
Southern China police marched four suspected COVID-restriction offenders through the streets of the city. Four masked men, wearing chemical protection suits, holding posters bearing their photographs and names, marched in front of a crowd in Jiangxi City, Guangxi Region, on Tuesday.
The photographs from the event show that each suspect was held by two police officers in shields, masks and protective suits, and around there were police officers in special equipment, and some were armed.
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Participants in the march were accused of transporting illegal migrants, while China’s borders remain largely closed due to the pandemic, Guangxi News reported. The act of public shame was part of the disciplinary measures imposed by local authorities in August against sanitation offenders.
The practice of public condemnation was previously quite common in the PRC. In 2010, the country banned public denunciation of suspected crimes after decades of campaigning by human rights defenders, but this practice has resumed with the outbreak of the pandemic and the introduction of restrictive measures.
In parallel with the “civil execution”, residents of one of China’s largest cities risk starving to death in their homes after being banned from going out, even to buy food. Such restrictions were imposed on Monday in the 13 million city of Xi’an, after only a few dozen patients were found. Xi’an residents, by order of city officials, are only allowed to leave their homes by invitation to test for COVID-19 or in medical emergencies.
Previously, one member of each family was allowed to go out every two days to buy groceries. The City said that people in “low risk” areas will be allowed to go out for essential items after testing is complete and if the test is negative.
The tightening of lockdowns has led some Xi’an residents to literally beg for help on social media, claiming they are “starving.” “I will soon die of hunger,” one of the townspeople wrote on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Facebook, “there is no food, the whole apartment complex is blocked, and I will soon run out of instant noodles … Please help!”
In Xi’an stores before the introduction of the lockdown.
The authorities have canceled all domestic flights from Xi’an, restricting train and intercity traffic. All public events are prohibited, residents are prohibited from leaving their homes, except in urgent cases.
On Tuesday, there were reports of 175 new cases in Xi’an. This is a paltry figure compared to other major cities in the world, but a serious challenge for China, where the authorities adhere to a “zero covid” strategy, that is, preventing the slightest possibility of the spread of coronavirus in the country. It is being held especially harshly in connection with the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, which are to be held from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Xi’an has been in isolation since last Thursday, when mass testing revealed that one patient had escaped quarantine and spread the virus. Xi’an has reported 810 cases of covid this month, the largest outbreak in China since the virus first appeared in Wuhan.
Cases of the disease have also been reported in neighboring cities. In Yanan, about 185 miles from Xi’an, businesses closed on Tuesday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in one district not to leave their homes, the Daily Mail reported.
Blocking 13 million people at once is a world record for a pandemic. Previously, such an “achievement” also belonged to China, where the authorities blocked the infamous 11 millionth city of Wuhan in early 2020.
Source: Rosbalt
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