China has asked families to make “efforts to ensure the provision of food” amid the outbreaks now active in different parts of the country, which have caused partial and total confinements in some cities.
The Ministry of Commerce in a statement urged families to “stockpile basic necessities in case of emergencies”, In addition to asking the local authorities to guarantee the supply of food and to do everything possible to keep prices stable.
The state media The Economic Daily assured that the notification aims to “to guarantee that the citizens do not have problems if a confinement is imposed in their zone ”.
It also seeks that citizens “raise awareness when dealing with emergencies” Given the “many people were left without groceries at home after their residential complexes closed due to COVID-19 cases″.
Right now, China is fighting an outbreak associated with the delta variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that the authorities try to appease with their usual recipe, consisting of partial or total confinements in some cities, travel restrictions and several rounds of nucleic acid tests in different parts of the country.
In its last part published today, the National Health Commission The country announced the detection of 71 new cases of the virus, 54 of them due to local contagion, affecting at least 16 regions of the country.
Likewise, the total number of infected persons active in the China continental amounts to 912, of which 35 are serious.
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