China has restricted its citizens’ travel abroad due to increase in COVID-19 cases

China on Wednesday announced restrictions on its citizens traveling abroad amid a new wave of covid-19 infections in the country and given “The complicated pandemic situation abroad.”

Immigration services will temporarily stop issuing passports and other documents needed to travel abroad “unless there is a compelling reason “he told reporters Liu Haitao, an official from the immigration office.

The decision was made at a time when the the curve of new cases continues to increase at the Asian giant, with what several cities across the country have extended restrictions and selective lockdowns to stop the spread of the worst epidemics since the start of the pandemic.

Chinese authorities they try to contain the germs -71 positives due to local contagion recorded this Wednesday by 61 on Tuesday or 55 on Monday- with massive series of tests and partial containments in the up to 144 areas now considered to be at risk.

This is the highest figure since China set standards for covid control and prevention tasks, detailed on Wednesday the National Health Commission of the Asian country.

In addition, the service of taxis, intercity buses and private transport platforms has been suspended in these areas until further notice, added the Ministry of Transport.

The outbreaks, associated with the delta variant of the virus, have spread to different parts of the country, with new cases reported on Wednesday in Hunan (center, 15), Hubei (center, 9), Shandong (is, 6), Yunnan (on, 3), Henan (center, 2) and Fujian (southeast, 1).

At the margin, the authorities also detected 27 new asymptomatic infections (15 of them by local contagion; the rest, “imported”), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they are showing symptoms.

Thus, the total number of infected workers is 1,240, including 21 serious, three less than the day before.

Wuhan extends closures

There are more than 400 new local cases since an outbreak at Nanjing airport on July 20, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, was born according to the cleaning authorities without adequate protection of a Air China from Russia in which an infected person was traveling.

Those responsible for the Transport portfolio highlighted today in the need to strengthen preventive measures at airports, with further disinfection and nucleic acid testing every other day for some workers.

Nankeen, who had been locally free since June 2020, undertook nucleic acid testing on all of its residents yesterday -About 11 million- and today its authorities have extended the confinements to 16 residential complexes after recording nine other infections.

In Shanghai, who did not report any new cases, Authorities today confirmed that Tuesday’s positive result was unrelated to the Nanjing outbreak., although it also belongs to the delta variant, which is estimated to be up to 60% more transmissible.

During the day, three new positives were also confirmed in Beijing.

New cases arise in full vacation period due to school break, and authorities in several cities have asked not to travel to other provinces if it is not strictly necessary.

The outbreaks reached the Autonomous Region of Macao, who also announced on Wednesday a series of massive tests to its population after confirming four positives for covid.

Local experts said the The vaccination rate and the accumulated experience will prevent a large-scale epidemic throughout the country: China has so far administered 1.7 billion doses of your covid vaccines, according to the National Health Commission, which does not publish data on the number of people who have received the full immunization schedule.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

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