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CHINA / SOCIETY By GT staff reporters Published: Jan 12, 2021 09:35 PM
Residents line up to take nucleic acid test at a community in Shijiazhuang, North China s Hebei Province, on January 7, 2021. Photo: VCG
About 22 million people in three cities of Hebei Province neighboring the capital Beijing have been placed under COVID-19 lockdown as of Tuesday, twice the size of the population that was put under lockdown during the Wuhan epidemic, as Hebei has vowed to take resolute measures to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the capital.
The lockdown measures in Hebei cities - Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang - were not as harsh as Wuhan s as residents in Hebei could go downstairs to pick up their deliveries or purchase food from stores inside their residential communities. Vehicles and people in the three cities are not allowed to leave, unless necessary, Hebei authorities said at Tuesday s news briefing.
Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing severe and moderate infections, 77.96 percent effective in preventing mild cases, and has an overall efficacy of 50.4 percent in Brazil’s final-stage trials.
Clustered outbreak emerges in Beijing village, officials warn of vulnerability in epidemic control
Liu Caiyu Published: Jan 11, 2021 01:03 PM
A community worker (L) measures body temperature for a resident at the entrance of the Hongcheng Huayuan residential compound on Wangquan Street, Shunyi District, Beijing, capital of China, on Dec. 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
A clustered outbreak of COVID-19 infections has emerged in a village in Beijing, amid warnings that China s villages could be a potential weak spot in the country s epidemic control efforts.
Lianzhuang village in Beijing s Shunyi district has recorded seven COVID-19 infections, including a family of three. Lianzhuang has been completely sealed off and all 968 villagers will undergo nucleic acid testing, Beijing authorities said at a press conference.
The virus strain found in coronavirus-hit Hebei Province in North China is believed to be from overseas and patient zero had emerged before December 15, Hebei authorities revealed on Sunday, but how the virus was imported remains a mystery.