China: Covid lockdown forces Xinjiang residents to depend just on bread and noodles
China Xinjiang province is hit with limited options due to a gruelling and week-long COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
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China Xinjiang province is hit with limited options due to a gruelling and week-long COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
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Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of far-western China, celebrated a boom in Chinese tourists this summer seeking a sunny respite from Covid-19 worries in their home towns. Now Yining is under its own grueling, weeks-long pandemic lockdown, with residents calling for help over limited food, and difficulty getting medicine, New York Times reported.
Residents in part of the western Xinjiang region have taken to social media to complain of serious shortages of food and supplies after more than a month of Covid-19 restrictions. The Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture – an area in the north of Xinjiang that is home to 4.5 million people – has been under lockdown since early August after an...
There hasn’t been an official announcement but people in the Ili Kazakh prefecture say they have been confined to their homes since early August after a Covid-19 outbreak.