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news You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. What would happen if online deliveries from China’s tech giants stopped overnight? This city offers a glimpse Yujie Xue [email protected] Volunteers check orders of daily necessity goods at a supermarket according to requests from residents in quarantine in Tonghua, northeast China s Jilin Province, Jan. 24, 2021. Photo: Xinhua/Xu Chang A humanitarian crisis of sorts took place in a Chinese town last week after the local authority imposed draconian measures to lock down 300,000 residents to contain an outbreak of Covid-19. ....
The city of Tonghua in northeast China, where a cluster of COVID-19 cases has appeared, has finished its third citywide nucleic acid testing campaign, during which 10 asymptomatic infections were found, according to local authorities at a press briefing on Wednesday. A total of 361,927 people have been tested, and results for 252,879 people are available, said Jiang Haiyan, vice mayor of Tonghua in Jilin Province. Jiang said that a total of 2,750 close contacts and 3,779 secondary close contacts have been located and placed under centralized isolation. By Tuesday, the city had reported 279 locally transmitted confirmed cases and 74 asymptomatic infections. ....
A deputy mayor in a city in northeastern China has apologised after residents complained about a lack of food and essentials during the lockdown imposed to contain the latest coronavirus outbreak . Some residents in Tonghua in Jilin province, a city of more than 2 million people that entered a lockdown last Monday, vented their frustration on social media over. ....
The Tonghua city government in Jilin province apologized for unsatisfactory and insufficient service during residents' home quarantines, officials said on Sunday. ....