Don’t buy from abroad, Chinese told as Covid threatens Olympics and holidays

Chinese authorities are urging citizens not to order goods from overseas, in the latest extreme measure aimed at curbing Covid outbreaks only weeks away from the biggest holiday of the year and the start of the BeijingThe advisory on overseas packages was issued after authorities claimed that a recent Omicron infection detected in Beijing came from an international package sent from Canada.

Officials are under pressure to stamp out infections, and many having been punished for apparent failures. Different measures have been imposed across different provinces and cities, of varying degrees of severity. Liao Linzhu, the deputy director of the city’s post administration, urged people “to not buy products from oversea areas”.on Saturday had “self-reported” that they had received a package on 11 January. The package had been sent four days earlier. Authorities have since quarantined the patient’s family, the courier, and more than 60 others as close contacts, and tested more than 16,000 people in the patient’s home district of Haidian.

He said the overwhelmingly likely source of the infection was another person, and blaming packaging seemed more political than scientific. Response measures to the scattered outbreaks are varied and ad-hoc across the affected provinces. Local officials face conflicting pressures: they are largely responsible for implementation and face punishment over perceived or actual failures to control outbreaks.

The saying from the Chinese government don’t buy from overseas and I thought they didn’t have a sense of humour, I pissed myself…

“China is committed to its policy of zero Covid,” Shame that wasn’t the case nearly three years ago!

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