Beijing residents stocked up on essentials in anticipation of a possible lockdown as China’s capital began mass Covid-19 tests of people living or working in the city’s Chaoyang district
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Nationwide, there were about 20,200 new cases, the National Health Commission said Monday. Chinese health authorities also reported 51 new deaths, all in Shanghai. Separately, Shandong, a heavily populated province in eastern China, also reported the discovery of a new Omicron mutation, BA.2.3, which were the first such reported cases in mainland China.
Near one of Beijing’s main transit hubs on Sunday, workers could be seen installing makeshift tents marked with the words “Disaster Relief,” while supermarkets were filled with people loading up on frozen vegetables, bottled water and other necessities. Online, residents shared articles including one titled “Items Shanghaiers Regret Not Having Stocked Up On—You Can Take This List Right to the Grocery Store.
“I don’t think Beijing would slip into a situation like Shanghai, especially when people have learned from that experience and prepared,” Ms. Xia, who says she has enough food stockpiled to feed her household of five for about three months. “You won’t panic if you hoard enough food and daily necessities,” she said., who are at greater risk of developing severe symptoms from Covid-19, and who have accounted for almost all the severe cases in Shanghai’s outbreak.
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