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Chinese province back in lockdown as new coronavirus cases surface
Officials in northeast China have placed 108 million people on lockdown after a new cluster of coronavirus cases surfaced, according to reports.
Although small, the new 34 COVID-19 cases in Jilin province have prompted panicked government officials to clamp down — even as the rest of China is reopening after more than two months of lockdown following the outbreak of the pandemic in Wuhan, Bloomberg reported.
“Everyone is jittery,” Wang Yuemei, a factory worker in the Jilin city of Tonghua, told the outlet. “I never expected Jilin province to be a hard-hit area when the whole country is getting back to normal.”
The new lockdown is a shock to the region, which was forced into a nationwide shutdown in February and March despite relatively few cases — Jilin has had 127 confirmed cases compared to about 68,000 for Hubei, another Chinese province.
But local officials were taking no chances of a new outbreak.
Images from the main city of Shulan show empty streets and shops, with residents undergoing mandatory temperature screening in an attempt to avoid a new outbreak of the virus. School children were sent home as classes were shut down, while workers are seen converting a local sports arena, the Jilin Ice Sports Center, into a makeshift field hospital.
Government officials said residential compounds with suspected cases will be closed off, and only one member of each family will be allowed to leave to buy supplies — and only for two hours every other day.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/18/chinese-province-back-in-lockdown-as-new-coronavirus-cases-surface/