{"id":52691,"date":"2020-04-22T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52691"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:18:29","slug":"authorities-on-high-alert-about-northern-china-virus-outbreak-as-beijing-district-is-marked-high-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52691","title":{"rendered":"Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked \u2018High-Risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked \u2018High-Risk\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chaoyang district in Beijing<\/a> city was officially designated a \u201chigh-risk region\u201d for the virus outbreak<\/a> on April 19. This is the first such region outside of Hubei province, China\u2019s CCP virus<\/a> epicenter, that authorities publicly acknowledged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread in northeastern China\u2019s Harbin<\/a>city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of Beijing municipal health commission, said<\/a>at a press conference on April 20: \u201cA region with more than 50 infections and a cluster outbreak within 14 days will be counted as a high-risk region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, did not get this designation\u2014despite authorities having announced<\/a> at least 58 domestic diagnosed<\/a> patients between April 9 to April 19, and several cluster outbreaks<\/a>occurring at Harbin Medical University (HMU) First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin No. 2 Hospital, as well as in residential compounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of the city is set as \u201clow risk\u201d areas. Only Daowai and Nangang districts were classified as \u201cmedium risk regions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pang did not provide details about the cases in Chaoyang district, but the city\u2019s health commission has only announced three domestic cases in the whole city between March 24<\/a> and April 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Epoch Times also obtained a series of internal documents from the Heilongjiang provincial government, in which authorities admitted that \u201cthe outbreak in Harbin is in an aggregated, explosive situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaoyang District<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

State-run newspaper Beijing News reported<\/a> on April 20 that people from Chaoyang district were being treated differently when they travel to other cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether the person is working or living in Chaoyang district. Before he or she enters our residential compound, he or she has to stay at a quarantine center for 14 days. The cost is 175 yuan ($25) per day, and must be paid by the person,\u201d the report quoted a government staff in Shijiazhuang city, Hebei province as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities on High Alert About Northern China Virus Outbreak, as Beijing District Is Marked \u2018High-Risk\u2019 Chaoyang district in Beijing city was officially designated a \u201chigh-risk region\u201d for the virus outbreak on April 19. This is the first such region outside of Hubei province, China\u2019s CCP virus epicenter, that authorities publicly acknowledged. Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread in northeastern China\u2019s Harbincity. Pang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[130,28817,29011,29518,16350,855],"class_list":["post-52691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-nicole-hao","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52692,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions\/52692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}