Beijing: China has put hundreds of thousands of thousands of people more and more people subscribed on Tuesday to try to eliminate an aggravated coronavirus epidemic because infections have struck new highs in several US and Europe.
Covid surges have wreaked havoc around the world, with many nations in Europe and North America, trying to strike a balance between an economically punishment of restrictions and control the spread of the virus.
The United States has halved the insulation period for asymptomatic cases to try to circumvent disturbances, while France ordered companies to have employees from home for at least three days a week.
Despite a much smaller duster compared to global virus hotspots, China did not relax its “zero covid” strategy, imposing home stay orders in many areas of the city of Yan’an.
The hundreds of thousands of thousands of affected residents joined the 13 million people in the city of Xi’an, which entered a sixth day of confinement of the house while China fought its highest daily numbers in 21 month.
“I’m about to be hungry to death,” said a resident of Xi’an on the Weibo platform like Twitter.
“There is no food, my housing compound will not let me go out, and I’m about to miss instant noodles … please help!”
Many Xi’an residents also complained about social media on restrictions, which include a ban on driving and a single member of a household authorized to go out for the grocery every three days.
This lock is most common in China since the city of similar size, Wuhan was cut off from the world at the beginning of the pandemic.
Travel chaos
The overvoltages of many countries have been propelled by the highly transmissible Omicron virus variant, hammering vulnerable sectors such as travel.
About 11,500 flights have been developed around the world for Friday and tens of thousands of people later, during one of the busiest trip periods of the year.
Several airlines have blamed staffing shortages caused by OMICRON case nurseries.
The overvoltage of the United States was fed by the Omicron variant, as well as large pockets of non-vaccinated residents and a lack of access to quick and easy tests.
President Joe Biden said Monday some US hospitals could be “outdated”, but that the country was generally well prepared.
He pointed out that Omicron would not have the same impact as the initial Cvid-19 epidemic or the delta variant this year.
“Omicron is a source of concern, but it should not be a source of panic,” said Biden.
In order to prevent mass shortages on the rise, US centers for the fight against disease and prevention Monday reduced the insulation period for asymptomatic cases of 10 to five days.
The United States is the nation the most difficult nation by the pandemic and ends daily 250,000 cases recorded last January.
New measures in Europe
Governments around the world are blurring to strengthen vaccinations, stressing that the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 Hospitalization and Covid-19 deaths occur among non-vaccinated.
Many nations have also been forced to bring unpopular and economically painful restrictions.
Germany will present new restrictions on Tuesday.
Private gatherings will be limited to ten vaccinated people – two for non-vaccinated people – and discotheques will be closed. All sports competitions will now take place at closed doors.
“Something needs to be done to reduce infection figures,” said a Berlin resident at AFP TV.
Faced with record-high infections, France stopped from a stay order at home, but called on employers to work with three-day staff a week to the extent possible.
The new measure, in place for at least three weeks, is one of the many announced after a crisis cabinet meeting on OICRON, which threatens to overwhelm hospitals.
However, similar to the United States, Prime Minister Jean Castex stated that France will announce at the end of the week a reduction in periods of quarantine and insulation for COVID cases and their contacts.