Shanghai Announces New CCP Virus Outbreak, Including Hospital Workers
China’s financial hub of Shanghai announced a new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak on Jan. 21 that includes two hospital workers.
While the two hospitals where the staffers work were temporarily closed, all city hospitals have been ordered to conduct nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 on all their employees.
Meanwhile, the northern province of Shanxi announced a new outbreak in Jinzhong city. Local authorities indicated the patients there had recently visited Hebei Province, ground zero of China’s latest virus resurgence.
The northern regions of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei, and Beijing continued to detect new infections.
Chinese Catholics urged to help state fight pandemic
Government-sanctioned church bodies ask Catholics to restrict activities
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A resident undergoes a Covid-19 test on Jan. 12 as part of a mass testing program following new cases of the virus emerging in Shijiazhuang in northern China s Hebei province. (Photo: STR/AFP)
The official state-sanctioned Catholic Church in China has asked Catholics to join their thoughts and actions with the spirit of Chinese President Xi Jinping s call to prevent and control the resurfacing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association jointly issued a notice to all Catholic institutions and dioceses on Jan. 8 asking them to take precautions as people began to travel for the Lunar New Year festival, which falls on Feb. 12 this year.