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LOCKED DOWN: Chinese Communist Party orders millions more to stay home

May 6, 2022 | | Print Article

Philip Lenczycki, DCNF

Beijing tightened restrictions on millions of residents following a surge of COVID-19 cases, Chinese state-run media reported Thursday.

Seeking to quarantine Beijing’s eastern Chaoyang prefecture from the rest of China’s capital, the city’s municipal government suspended service for dozens of bus lines and subway stations around the afflicted district, People’s Daily reported. The local government also ordered Chaoyang’s 3.5 million inhabitants to work from home beginning on Thursday.

Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control announced the city’s current outbreak, which began on April 22, has resulted in 505 confirmed COVID-19 cases, People’s Daily reported. This tally already surpasses the total number of cases stemming from the city’s 2020 Xinfadi wet market outbreak.

While Chaoyang is reportedly the epicenter of the current outbreak and is responsible for over 200 cases, Fangshan, a district in Beijing’s southwest quadrant, has confirmed 130 cases, the report notes.

Beijing’s decision to tighten restrictions has residents fearing a Shanghai-style city wide lockdown, according to The New York Times.

“What happened in Shanghai was a cautionary tale,” Yang Hui, a Beijing resident, told The New York Times. “I’m so tired of Covid and the so-called ‘zero COVID’ strategy.”

Shanghai, China’s financial hub and home to nearly 29 million inhabitants, implemented a city-wide lockdown on April 5 in compliance with Xi Jinping’s signature zero-COVID policy. The city’s lockdown resulted in food shortages and a lack of basic necessities, leading to protests, public outrage and looting in some cases.

Despite Xi’s zero-COVID policy, Shanghai has still reported over 500,000 Omicron cases since March, according to the South China Morning Post.

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7 thoughts on “LOCKED DOWN: Chinese Communist Party orders millions more to stay home”

  1. China communist dictator is no different from what we have in Canada with the Fidel justin Castros tyranny imposed on the Canadian people .
    Totally unlawful, goes to bed with another party leader to obtain a majority government because his ass would have been kicked to the curb for
    Non confidence.
    AHole .

  2. Why is China concerned over such low covid numbers. They were NOT concerned when they unleashed covid on the rest of the world!!! MILLIONS died because of the Chinese virus. They didn’t even apologize for one soul lost.

  3. Covid – the biggest scam since “the democrat party is the party of the working man.” Honesty advisory: I’m a lifelong democrat. At age 77 I have voted for ONE democrat candidate since RFK, and that was Obama – hoping for something different from the party. Got the same old shat.

    1. With such a terrible record, why didn’t you wise up and switch parties??? I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he ran for dog catcher. It would be cruelty to animals, and they deserve much better!

    1. The Chinese Communist Party can keep telling the same lies and expect people to believe it, because they control (or are trying to) what is media content and how the rest of the world views them. When the masses show that they are not going to buy into it anymore, they will steer their anger away from the Party to outsiders like Japan and the United States. They will still suppress their own people with force, but unlike NoKo, they cannot hide it as well, because of the internet, popularity of cell phones, and backdoors to get around the government censors.

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