Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations -

[ditto]

are the two weeks over yet?

just another few weeks to flatten the curve

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

BoJo orders a national lockdown of England, lasting until mid-Feburary, due a massive surge in cornavirus cases. Scotland is also entering a new lockdown, to last until the end of January.

 

[Vault Boy]

BoJo orders a national lockdown of England, lasting until mid-Feburary, due a massive surge in cornavirus cases. Scotland is also entering a new lockdown, to last until the end of January.

I'll be surprised if Boris doesn't go down as one of the worst prime ministers Britain has ever had.

Whatever goodwill was earned by Brexit has been utterly pissed away by this dumbass slitting the country's throat.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

I'll be surprised if Boris doesn't go down as one of the worst prime ministers Britain has ever had.

Whatever goodwill was earned by Brexit has been utterly pissed away by this dumbass slitting the country's throat.

So what should he do instead? The UK's coronavirus case curve as gone nearly vertical at this point.

 

[FuckedUp]

So what should he do instead? The UK's coronavirus case curve as gone nearly vertical at this point.

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[Vault Boy]

So what should he do instead? The UK's coronavirus case curve as gone nearly vertical at this point.

Accept that trying to have zero cases for a respiratory disease is an exercise in futility, ignore the "experts" that think the sky's falling, and move towards getting things reopened. I know the case numbers seem big and scary (the real cause for concern should be the number of deaths, but who knows how inflated those numbers are), but a dead economy is going to make things much worse later on down the road.

The likes of Fauci refuse to see that their "suggestions" (more like demands) are going to bring ruin to us all.

 

[Discourteous Discourse]

the real cause for concern should be the number of deaths, but who knows how inflated those numbers are

Probably a lot. I already posted about it, but my city's hospital has been shamelessly inflating numbers. The nurses and doctors aren't even trying to stay quiet about it. People who have gone in with the flu have been marked as covid patients. Someone die due to obesity related causes? Put covid as the primary cause and obesity complications second. Car accident? Covid. Organ failure due to anything but covid? Covid. Suicide? Covid. Too many people believe those numbers are real. Why believe the government now? Why believe the news now? My state hasn't pushed for more lockdowns, but there's no shortage of politicians who want to shut everything down again for 100 days or more. Too many businesses had to close their doors for good, and the ones that barely scraped by could be done for if they have to close their doors again. More lockdowns won't help unless the goal is even higher suicide rates and economic ruin.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

• Quebec impose a curfew until Feb. 8. All residents must be at home from 8 P.M. to 5 AM.
• Nova Scotia is imposing a 14-day quarantine program for anybody entering from New Brunswick. Note that Nova Scotia has only a small land border with tha province.
• Japan is declaring a state of emergency for Tokyo. All restaurants must be closed by 7 P.M.
• China has sealed off Hubei, the original epicenter of the pandemic EDIT: it's actually Hebei, the province around Beijing. 52 cases of local transmission have been reported.
• German Chancellor Merkel's aide warn that the lockdown may have extended if the rules are too lax
• Cyprus is imposing a new lockdown
• Greece is extending lockdown measures until Jan. 16
• The Swedish Riksdag has passed new laws allowing for lockdown measure to be imposed. The government expect to use such powers soon.
• Anybody travelling to Australia must show a negative coronavirus test. Brisbane, Queensland goes under lockdown after the novel British strain is detected in the city.

 

[Never Scored]

Fucking good. New Brunswick is full of dirty fucking frenchmen anyway.

 

[MediocreMilt]

• Quebec impose a curfew until Feb. 8. All residents must be at home from 8 P.M. to 5 AM.
• Nova Scotia is imposing a 14-day quarantine program for anybody entering from New Brunswick. Note that Nova Scotia has only a small land border with tha province.
• Japan is declaring a state of emergency for Tokyo. All restaurants must be closed by 7 P.M.
• China has sealed off Hubei, the original epicenter of the pandemic. 52 cases of local transmission have been reported.
• German Chancellor Merkel's aide warn that the lockdown may have extended if the rules are too lax
• Cyprus is imposing a new lockdown
• Greece is extending lockdown measures until Jan. 16
• The Swedish Riksdag has passed new laws allowing for lockdown measure to be imposed. The government expect to use such powers soon.
• Anybody travelling to Australia must show a negative coronavirus test. Brisbane, Queensland goes under lockdown after the novel British strain is detected in the city.

Not buying it.

America's response has been uniquely devastating.

The news said so.

 

[Florence]

Welp, my study abroad’s been cancelled again thanks to the Tokyo state of emergency (even though the university in question is nowhere near Tokyo) and this time I won’t be able to reapply. I can’t say I’m surprised, but that doesn’t make it any less devastating.

 

[Never Scored]

Ontario announced yesterday they would not implement a curfew like Quebec.....only to announce an even more restrictive stay at home order roday.

 

[bot_for_hire]

Chinese Cities in Lockdown as Police Warn People Not to Spread 'Rumors'​

The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Tuesday placed a city of five million people in lockdown amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in several locations around the country.

All 4.9 million residents of Langfang city in the northern province of Hebei were ordered to stay home, as the authorities prepared to roll out a mass testing program in the city.

Langfang's lockdown follows that of Shijiazhuang, provincial capital of Hebei, whose 11 million population have been under lockdown for several days.

In Hebei's Xingtai city, the CCP issued a directive calling for donations from the private sector to support the healthcare industry during the pandemic.

A Jan. 10 directive signed by the CCP's United Front Work Department, which mobilizes support outside of the ruling party, called on local authorities in nearby Nangong city to "levy pandemic supplies from private entrepreneurs, including single beds, mattresses, quilts, pillows, buckets, medical waste bags, and so on."

An employee who answered the phone at the department confirmed the report.

"Our entire supply network has been cut off, so we can't bring in supplies from elsewhere now," the employee said. "Some people can drive themselves to Xingtai ... and we coordinate to let them in, but most cars aren't being allowed into Hebei right now, and can't even get onto the highway without a pass; it's all blocked."

"That's why the [truck] drivers don't want to come here."


Travel restrictions in force

In Shijiazhuang, non-essential vehicles are barred from entering or leaving city limits, and the city has suspended major transport links following an outbreak earlier this month.

Passengers are being prevented from taking trains out of the city, and ticket sales have been suspended, state media reported.

The authorities have also banned gatherings, closed schools, and thrown a security cordon around some areas of the city, with contact tracing teams set up at provincial, city, and district levels.

Essential workers seeking to enter the city are waiting for hours to submit to checks of their ID and negative COVID-19 test results.

A Nangong resident surnamed Wang said the authorities had carried out city-wide mass testing of more than 10 million people in just three days.

"There are more than 100 [cases] a day now [in Shijiazhuang] and it's even worse in Nangong," she said. "In some areas, entire villages have been taken away, which must be for isolation."

"Anyone from Shijiazhuang and Hebei are being treated like pariahs now, just as people from Wuhan were last year," she said. "Transportation is totally shut down. No high speed trains, no subway, no planes, nothing."

Hebei's Xiong'an New District has launched a campaign of COVID-19 testing for all government employees, while authorities in Gu'an county have imposed a seven-day quarantine on local residents.

In Beijing, the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) has called for a ban on taxis, ride-sharing, and car-pooling services until drivers can get tested and vaccinated, according to the CCP-backed Beijing Daily newspaper.

Authorities have also locked down Wangkui county in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang after 36 asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 were confirmed there, while Changchun city has imposed restrictions on the movements of some residents after asymptomatic cases were detected there too.


Fears of a second wave

A resident of the northeastern city of Dalian surnamed Wu told RFA that local residents are fearful that a second wave of COVID-19 is under way in the region.

"I am pretty scared, because the pandemic is constantly evolving and the situation is very complicated," Wu said. "The pandemic is pretty bad across the whole of the northeast right now."

A resident of the central province of Hubei surnamed Gao said local residents depend on a health clearance code to be able to come and go from their residential compounds.

"We hadn't needed it for a few months, but now they are starting to ask for a health code if we want to get into the compound," Gao said.

Police in Wuhan's Qiaokou district said rumors had circulated that two cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed on Hanzheng Street, a historic shopping district and tourist destination, and that all employees on the street were being mass-tested for the coronavirus.

But it claimed that the reports, once investigated, had been found to be untrue.

"We hope people will refrain from believing or spreading rumors, and consciously resist rumors they hear online," the police said in a social media post.

"Anyone deliberately spreading rumors or misinformation will be punished by police ... once they have investigated."

Gao said that many of the rumors are likely accurate information that the authorities don't want people to know, however.

"We are in another wave of this pandemic, and there is a lot of truth in the rumors we are hearing," he said. "They are actually pretty credible."

"Of course they dictate [the way things go]; regular folk have no way to do that," Gao said. "We only get to see the things they want us to see; we will never know [about the rest of it]."

Zhang Hai, who has campaigned for redress for a relative struck down by COVID-19 in the central city of Wuhan, said many people are skeptical of calls for donations.

"Many people are on a lower income than they were before the pandemic, and families are finding it hard to make ends meet," Zhang said. "Maybe companies will donate ... because if they don't, that could mean all kinds of trouble for them."


Party meetings postponed

The Hebei Provincial People's Congress announced it would postpone its plenary session that is usually held ahead of National People's Congress (NPC) annual sessions in Beijing in March, with the new date to be announced later.

Provincial People's Congresses have also been cancelled in the southern province of Guangdong and in Hubei.

Total confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China stood at 87,591 on Tuesday while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634. However, newly reported asymptomatic cases rose to 81 on Tuesday from 76 on Monday.

World Health Organization (WHO) experts are now being permitted to visit Wuhan in a bid to gather evidence about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday.

The experts will arrive in Wuhan on Thursday after being delayed for months.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the scientists, who come from several nations, will focus on how the coronavirus first jumped to people.

“Studies will begin in Wuhan to identify the potential source of infection of the early cases,” Tedros said.

China has rejected calls for an independent investigation while strictly controlling all research into the origins of the coronavirus and promoting fringe theories that the virus may have actually been brought to China from outside, the Associated Press reported.

 

[Pickle Dick]

Chinese Cities in Lockdown as Police Warn People Not to Spread 'Rumors'​

lol, i wonder why

 

[Freya]

my mom showed me her vaccine card. she thinks its bullshit but suggested i get it anyway so i can go to another state freely


we're literally getting travel papers now

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Pro-Gamer Tip: If you're a business owner, don't forget that couriers are essential workers, and people will pay for travel papers designating them as a courier. Profits will be tremendous.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

• The French government is now imposing a 6 PM curfew. Also extending vaccinations to all high-risk groups.
• The UK is banning travel from all of South America due to the new Brazil variant.

 

[bot_for_hire]

Lockdowns Imposed as Northeastern Chinese Provinces Report Spike in Coronavirus Cases​

The COVID-19 pandemic produced spikes cases in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province this week, prompting an order for its 37.5 million residents to stay home, while Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing, reported scores of new cases and its first coronavirus death in nearly eight months, authorities said.

The Health Commission of Heilongjiang Province announced that 43 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Wednesday, and another 68 asymptomatic cases were reported. Local authorities have been conducting contact tracing and implementing strict quarantine measures, and disinfecting places that the new group of COVID-19 patients have visited.

Heilongjiang announced a state of emergency, ordering its 37.5 million residents to stay in place, and putting Suihua, a city of 5 million, under lockdown Monday after 45 asymptomatic cases were reported.

A resident of Lanxi county, in Suihua city surnamed Li told RFA Thursday that the local government ordered an indefinite home quarantine:

“Currently, the towns will be under lockdown no matter whether there are cases reported or not. The government is locking down cities, towns, and villages. Then the officials will conduct COVID-19 Nucleic Acid PCR tests. There is no clear indication as to when the lockdown will lifted,” he told RFA.

Wangkui county resident Li Hui, whose neighborhood was hard hit by COVID-19, told RFA that there are 56 asymptomatic cases in her county.

“Several communities have been locked down. The city is in lockdown. Even our family members were infected. More than 60 communities were shut down,” she said.

Heilongjiang provincial capital Harbin resident Liu Yang told RFA that there had been a COVID-19 case reported two days ago. Now even going to the supermarket in the community requires undergoing strict checks.

“We have have our temperature checked before being allowed to enter the market. Masks are mandatory. Registration is also required. It’s getting strict again,” said Liu.

In Hebei, the provincial health commission of reported Thursday 81 new COVID-confirmed cases in the province, 75 of which were reported in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, while another six cases were recorded in Xingtai city.

There were no details available on the new death case in Hebei, the province’s first confirmed COVID-19 death case in 8 months.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) Deputy Director Feng Zijian told Chinese media that compared to the previous outbreaks, there are more cases in the current Shijiazhuang outbreak, and the spread is much faster.

Shijiazhuang, with a population of 11 million is in comprehensive lockdown now, with individuals and vehicles not permitted to leave the city.

A truck driver from Baoding city in Hebei said he was denied access when he tried to refuel his truck in a gas station in Korla, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

In a video that was widely shared on social media, the driver complained as a gas station employee refused to fill his tank.

“What crime did I commit that you will not fill my gas tank? I’m from Hebei Baoding. Here I am at a Sinopec gas station,” he said.

“Trucks from Hebei are being denied access to refuel our tanks. This is discrimination. Do you know that?” the man said.

A man surnamed Wang, a resident of Shunyi outside Beijing, told RFA that even though the local situation is not bad, authorities appear on high alert.

“The measures are tightened in Beijing. Our community here is to shut down today. Members in the WeChat group commented that our community should not be shut down because we are in a low-risk area. Yet all but one entrances were closed off,” he said Thursday.

“People enter and exit only from one entrance. Couriers and food deliveries are not allowed at all. In my mom’s community, facial recognition is required for entry," Wang added.

Mi Feng, a spokesperson for China’s National Health Commission, told reporters the recent outbreak featured faster transmission speeds, older patients, and more cases found in rural areas.

 

[Meriasek]

Current Twitter trend around here: "Megalockdown". People are up in arms about some allegedly planned stricter lockdown, with public transport being stopped almost entirely, being restricted to go out of the home, only leave the home with an FFP2 mask, that kind of stuff.
Fun times ahead. Lockdowns and restrictions will continue until April when the season is over naturally.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

• Austria is extending and expanding lockdown measures. Measures extended until Feb. 7. Social distancing expanded to 2 meters from 1. On Jan. 25, public transit users will require full protective gear (not cloth mask), which the government will provide.
• The UK has ended international travel corridors on Friday. Travelers inbound to the UK will need a negative test in the last 72 hours. Otherwise, they will into isolation for the next 10 days.
• Somewhat late: last week, Malaysia imposed a 14-day lockdown.
• EDIT: Australia does not expect to fully reopen the border in 2021
• The German State of Saxony will use refugee camps as central quartining centers for repeat offenders of anti-virus measures. Baden-Württemberg will have hospital room under police surveillance and Schlewig-Holstein will use a juvenile dentition center.