This confinement is the largest announced in China since that of the metropolis of Xi’an (north) and its 13 million inhabitants at the end of last year.
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Drastic measure in Changchun, China. The nine million inhabitants of this city located in the northeast of the country have been placed in confinement, local authorities announced on Friday March 11. Only one person per household is allowed to go out, once every two days, the town hall said. The Omicron variant is behind localized outbreaks in China that affected 1,369 people in exactly the past 24 hours on Friday, according to Health Ministry figures.
This confinement is the largest announced in China since that of the metropolis of Xi’an, in the north of the country, and its 13 million inhabitants at the end of last year.
The country, where the virus was initially detected at the end of 2019, quickly contained the epidemic in the spring of 2020 by adopting very strict containment measures affecting entire cities. The Asian giant has thus managed to largely stem the contagion, with an official toll of just over 100,000 cases, including 4,636 fatalities, in the space of two years.