![]() My uncle and aunt,, can still go buy food themselves.”Ĭhinese authorities are acting quickly to prevent Beijing from entering a full-scale lockdown, which was undertaken most notably and recently in the financial capital, Shanghai. Zhuoran Li, a research assistant at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, told me, “Family and friends in Beijing have told me that, right now, it’s still more of locking down communities rather than the entire city. This has included rounds of mandatory mass PCR testing for its population of 22 million residents partial lockdowns contact tracing isolation of cases and close contacts sealing off of buildings public transit cutbacks closures of schools, malls, movie theaters, and gyms and bans on indoor dining at restaurants. Beijing officials have rolled out numerous policies from their zero-Covid pandemic playbook. China as a whole has passed the 1.5 million Covid-19 total confirmed case count, with the vast majority of cases reported since the beginning of March.Īlthough the Beijing case count is lower compared to Shanghai’s, and considerably lower than what’s been seen in the United States, China has responded with urgency. ![]() By comparison, Shanghai, China’s economic capital, which had previously dominated the headlines for its devastating surge, has reported 4,798 cases since the beginning of this month. ![]() This past month, the wave has reached the capital, Beijing, and what happens there could have enormous implications for the course of the pandemic, China’s government, and the global economy.Īs of Wednesday, May 18, Beijing has reported 719 cases since the beginning of the month, part of the worst surge the city has faced since the virus emerged. The Covid wave caused by the highly contagious omicron variant has spread across many major cities, including Shanghai. After successfully curbing the novel coronavirus for most of the past two years, China in recent months has faced its biggest Covid-19 surge since the virus was first discovered in Wuhan in December 2019.
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