The government of Chengdu, Sichuan, China announced that the city will be closed from 18:00 on Thursday (1st), calling on the public to “leave Chengdu unless necessary” and requiring the public to undergo nucleic acid testing for four consecutive days, highlighting the resurgence of the local epidemic in China.
The Chengdu New Corona Virus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters said on Thursday that from 18:00 that day, all residents will be “at home in principle”, and non-residents of the community will not be allowed to enter. Rural areas strictly control the entry and exit of people, and foreigners must report.
Each resident can arrange one person to go out once a day with a negative nucleic acid certificate within 24 hours to buy living materials nearby.
The headquarters said that nationwide nucleic acid testing will be carried out from September 1 to September 4, and personnel in the city will be screened in accordance with the requirements of “must be tested”.
The headquarters said that from 18:00 on Thursday, in addition to public service enterprises such as water, electricity, fuel, gas, communications, sanitation, grain, oil, meat and vegetable supply that ensure people’s lives and the basic operation of the city, as well as those with closed-loop production conditions, Except for industrial enterprises that undertake important production tasks, other enterprises adopt the remote work mode.
The Chengdu Municipal Health Commission reported on Thursday that there were 106 new confirmed cases of local symptoms and 51 asymptomatic infections on Wednesday, bringing the total to 157.
Chengdu government officials said that the epidemic has continued to spread locally, and the epidemic is on the rise. The trajectory of cases spreads across public places in 22 districts and counties in the city, including residential communities, training institutions, schools, stations, restaurants, wet markets, and supermarkets. ,amusement park.
Government officials said that the epidemic spread rapidly, with many hidden transmissions and scattered cases, and the epidemic situation in the city was extremely complex and severe.
This is China’s largest urban blockade since Shanghai locked down the city earlier this year, underscoring the continued expansion of the “zero-clearance policy”‘s disruption to economic activity. Heavyweight companies such as Hon Hai, Intel, and Toyota have established factories in Chengdu.
The level of economic chaos in Chengdu depends on how long the lockdown order lasts. The immediate impact is the cooling of consumer activities such as shopping and eating out, but if the supply chain is interrupted for a long time, factory inventories are reduced, and production is impacted, the blockade order will hit this southwestern manufacturing hub hard.