China puts Lanzhou city in strict lockdown as Covid cases surge due to Delta variant

China has put Lanzhou, a megacity of four million people, under a strict lockdown amid the rearmost swell in Covid-19 cases in the country. China has asked residers of Lanzhou to not leave their places unless it’s an exigency. 

According to news agency AFP, China has recorded 29 new cases of Covid-19 with 6 of them being reported from Lanzhou. The lockdown restrictions in Lanzhou were blazoned on Tuesday, a day after the fresh cases. 

On Monday, China put thousands of people in northern China under strict restrictions at a time when Covid-19 cases are rising again in the country over the rearmost Delta variant outbreak. 

Officers in Beijing have also confined access to sightseer spots and advised residers not to leave the megacity unless necessary, although regular transport services continued as normal, reported AFP. 

China reported 39 new cases on Monday, bringing the census from the rearmost Delta variant- linked outbreak to further than 100 cases over the once week. 

The figures are extremely low compared with utmost places in the world, but China has pursued a zero-case strategy throughout the epidemic and authorities are determined to subdue the rearmost outbreak with the Winter Olympics just over 100 days down. 

Several casing blocks in Beijing have been locked down, and organisers on Sunday indefinitely heldup a marathon at which runners were anticipated. 

Some residers in one casing emulsion in Changping quarter have been ordered to stay outdoors after nine cases were plant there in recent days, original outlet Beijing News reported. 

Prints showed officers in hazmat suits standing watch outside the entrances to each apartment block, and the border of the emulsion blocked by essence fences. 

Entry will be confined for people who have been to places with original Covid-19 infections in the last 14 days, Beijing’s vice hype minister said Monday. 

In the central megacity of Wuhan– where the coronavirus was first linked in late 2019– organisers suddenly cancelled another marathon Sunday that was anticipated to draw actors.