Beijing turns into ghost town amid spike in virus cases
The Straits Times|November 21, 2022
Outbreak proving to be a test for new rules aimed at easing earlier stringent measures
Elizabeth Law
Beijing turns into ghost town amid spike in virus cases

Over the weekend, much of Beijing was shut down as Covid-19 cases continued to spike in the Chinese capital, even as the country reported its first coronavirus death since May.

Municipal officials on Friday urged residents to stay home for the city to "quieten down", but left it to individual districts to decide what control measures to implement. This resulted in the uneven enforcement of rules, with some areas issuing dine-in bans on Friday evening while other eateries were allowed to operate throughout the weekend.

Although lockdowns are continuing in several residential areas, they have been on a smaller scale, targeting only buildings with positive cases and adjacent blocks.

On Sunday, China reported 24,215 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, of which 22,011 were asymptomatic. Nearly 8,400 came from Guangdong province, where there is an ongoing outbreak, and over 4,500 from Chongqing city in southwestern China. There were 516 cases in Beijing.

The city also reported a Covid-19-related death on Sunday - that of an 86-year-old man who was admitted to Ditan Hospital with a lung infection and several underlying medical conditions. Local health officials said the man had chronic hypertension and degenerative brain disease, among other issues. His condition worsened on Saturday and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, said Ditan Hospital's deputy head Jin Ronghua.

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