China orders mass testing in Wuhan as COVID outbreak spreads

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BEIJING (AP) — China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan on Tuesday as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.

While the total number of cases is still in the hundreds, they are far more widespread than anything China has dealt with since the initial outbreak that devastated Wuhan in early 2020 and over time spread to the rest of the country and the world.

China has not eliminated but largely curbed COVID-19 at home with quick lockdowns and mass testing to isolate infected people whenever new cases pop up. Most previous outbreaks didn’t spread far beyond a city or province. This time, cases have been confirmed in more than 35 cities in 17 of China’s 33 provinces and regions.

The cities of Nanjing and Yangzhou have canceled all domestic flights, and Beijing has halted long-distance trains from 23 stations. The Chinese Basketball Association said that matches of its men’s professional league would be suspended because of the pandemic.

https://apnews.com/article/health-china-coronavirus-pandemic-wuhan-8fa8edb073629c692ac51772e5e9d775

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1. From a friend in china

From a friend in China

About 80 new covid-19 infections, most them the delta variant, were reported yesterday here. Whole districts and individual sets of buildings in cities where the virus has been found are locked down except for essential services, and city wide testing and full contact tracing is underway. Officials and leaders in those cities who did not exercise sufficient effort or manage control methods adequatly have been punished by removal from their posts. Meanwhile, I see that not only the Wall Street Journal but the NY Times is propagandizing against China-style methods to eradicate the virus. The Times published an article claiming that the New Outbreak here shows the ‘fragility’ of China’s approach and cited some so-called experts suggesting that the homicidal methods used in Britain might best be adopted by China. Of course, this is all nonsense. Whatever we might think of the Chinese regime in other respects, it’s a fact that not only the central govlernment but all 1.4 billion of us here - incluidng large numbers of volunteers who assist in contact tracing and other work - stand solidly behind the virus contral program. There are criticisms of course, some on the internet, but they are invariably about official laxity in *not taking sufficientr prevnetive measures or not suffiicinetly enforcing necessary steps to protect us or for temporary delays in adequatenly organizing things like food deliveries to tenants in locked down buildings where the virus had been found"