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Anonymous ID: 2c6801 May 30, 2021, 2:33 p.m. No.13794350   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4212729

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Chinese city locks down neighborhood after virus upsurge

 

By Associated Press

 

2021/05/29 19:58

 

Virus testing in Guangzhou's Liwan district

Virus testing in Guangzhou's Liwan district (AP photo)

 

BEIJING (AP) — The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou shut down a neighborhood and ordered its residents to stay home Saturday for door-to-door coronavirus testing following an upsurge in infections that has rattled authorities.

 

Guangzhou, a business and industrial center of 15 million people north of Hong Hong, has reported 20 new infections over the past week. The number is small compared with India’s thousands of daily cases but alarmed Chinese authorities who believed they had the disease under control.

 

The spread of infections was “fast and strong,” the official Global Times newspaper cited health authorities as saying.

 

Saturday’s order to stay home applied to residents of five streets in Liwan District in the city center.

 

Outdoor markets, child care centers and entertainment venues were closed. Indoor restaurant dining was prohibited. Grade schools were told to stop in-person classes.

 

People in parts of four nearby districts were ordered to limit outdoor activity.

 

The city government earlier ordered testing of hundreds of thousands of residents following the initial infections. The government said some 700,000 people had been tested by Wednesday.

 

China reports a handful of new cases every day but says almost all are believed to be people who were infected abroad. The mainland’s official death toll stands at 4,636 out of 91,061 confirmed cases.

 

On Saturday, the National Health Commission reported two new locally transmitted cases in Guangzhou and 14 in other parts of the country that it said came from abroad.

 

Most of the latest infections in Guangzhou are believed to be linked to a 75-year-old woman who was found May 21 to have the variant first identified in India, state media say. Most of the others attended a dinner with her or live together.

 

That infection spread to the nearby city of Nanshan, where one new confirmed case and two asymptomatic cases were reported Saturday after people from Guangzhou were tested, according to The Global Times.

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/so-unfriendly-and-so-inhuman-south-sudan-criticises-uk-aid-cuts-amid-fears-of-famine/ar-AAKxhoT

 

ritain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government was looking to provide "value for taxpayers" in places like South Sudan, where the UK was the country's second-largest donor.

 

The feeling in this impoverished nation's capital, Juba, is noticeably different.

 

The people who run international and local aid organisations - as well as those who govern here - are deeply afraid.

 

South Sudan is almost completely reliant on international aid agencies and their local partners to provide food and basic government services© Other South Sudan is almost completely reliant on international aid agencies and their local partners to provide food and basic government services

"We look at it so unfriendly and so inhuman to cut aid at this particular time. It is the time when we need the world's attention like never before," said the minister of humanitarian affairs, Peter Mayen Majongdit.

 

He said he was notified of the cuts in a letter dated 27 April, but that the UK still has not provided any details.

 

"We asked, what went wrong in our relationship with the British government? We felt it was a time to double their effort," said Mr Majongdit.

 

a little boy that is standing in the dirt: The FCDO said it would remain a big contributor to African aid© Other The FCDO said it would remain a big contributor to African aid

According to agencies such as the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), this country of 11 million is "on the brink of famine".

 

More than two-thirds of the population are suffering from severe food insecurity, with approximately 100,000 in isolated areas now considered at risk of mass starvation.

 

The deterioration of conditions on the ground comes at a time when agencies like the WFP are cutting emergency food rations as donors shrink their budgets.

 

The UK has slashed its contribution to emergency food aid by around 30%.

 

map: Those who run international and local aid organisations in Juba are deeply afraid of what the cuts could lead to© Other Those who run international and local aid organisations in Juba are deeply afraid of what the cuts could lead to

"Where we are trying to avert a famine, we have had to prioritise and in other areas where people are somewhat better off we have had to reduce their rations," said Matthew Hollingworth, country director for the World Food Programme.

 

a person wearing a costume: More than two-thirds of the population are suffering from severe food insecurity© Other More than two-thirds of the population are suffering from severe food insecurity

"So in effect, we are taking from the hungry to give to the starving and that is never an easy decision to take but it is a decision we have been forced to take this year."

 

The South Sudan government has accomplished little since gaining independence from Sudan 10 years ago.

 

It remains almost completely reliant on international aid agencies and their local partners to provide food and basic government services.

 

Periods of civil war and near-continuous political and tribal conflict have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and two years of unprecedented rainfall have destroyed infrastructure and farming and grazing lands.