issuing time: 15/04/2022 – 19:20
The tragedy of Xi’an’s closure is still fresh in the memory, and when Shanghai is in dire straits and public grievances are rising, Xi’an suddenly announced on Friday that it will implement temporary social control from the 16th, and the city’s personnel will stay at home. Netizens in Xi’an exclaimed: “It’s here again!”
The closure of Xi’an began on December 23 last year, and it was not announced until January 24 this year that the lockdown was fully lifted. The government imposed a mandatory centralized quarantine on citizens. , detonated public grievances. Strangely, on such a scale, the lockdown of a city of 13 million people has only officially reported 2,053 confirmed cases. Compared with the humanitarian catastrophe and the economic damage, it is disproportionately serious.
At a time when the city of Shanghai with a population of 27 million was closed and the people were furious, the Xi’an authorities suddenly announced on Friday night that “temporary control” measures would be implemented from the 16th to reduce the flow of people and not go out unless necessary. Control time: 16th zero Up to 24:00 on the 19th, this time coincided with Shanghai’s announcement on March 28 to implement four-day control in Pudong and Puxi respectively. However, the partial control in Shanghai soon turned into a complete city closure, and the four-day closure became “tomorrow and tomorrow.” ” So far, there is no end in sight, and the people are miserable.
The Xi’an authorities explained that the reason for the implementation of the control was that as of 18:00 on the 15th, a total of 43 local positive infections had been found in the city, which were “extremely contagious Omicron variant strains”.
The Xi’an authorities require that the city’s community and unit personnel do not go out unless necessary, and can only operate in the community. Enterprises and institutions encourage employees to work from home, work remotely, and live in the unit.
Primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the main urban area, except for the graduating classes of senior three and junior three, all other grades implement online teaching.
Large-scale comprehensive shopping malls, public entertainment and leisure venues include KTV, Internet cafes, bars, chess and card rooms, foot bath shops, bathing centers, steam rooms, tea houses, etc., as well as personnel gathering business venues, including gyms, gymnasiums, yoga studios and various Training, intermediary agencies, public cultural activity venues and rural bazaars are temporarily closed. Prisons, welfare homes, nursing homes and other special places are closed for management. All catering units in the city are temporarily suspended.
Large-scale conferences and offline trainings will be suspended, group activities are strictly prohibited, weddings will be postponed, funerals will not be held, banquets will not be held, and all religious activities will be suspended.
Xi’an once again implemented social control, which caused heated discussions on the Internet. Some netizens complained that Xi’an was controlled again, and clearing it did not work. Why should it cause huge secondary disasters? There are also netizens who suspect that the official announcement of Xi’an’s temporary control for four days is a pretense. Like Shanghai, it also announced four-day control earlier, and now there are more than a few four-day control!
Some analysts pointed out that China implemented such a harsh and disproportionate zero policy because it was the order of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping reiterated again in Hainan a few days ago that insisting on dynamic clearing and unswerving, closing the city and clearing it has become a “political task”. The officials at the bottom are afraid of losing their black gauze caps, and they will run their lives to implement the highest instructions.