It banned people and vehicles in those urban areas from leaving and suspended entry into the areas for non-essential reasons via public roads, while halting bus and taxi services.It remains unclear how the Heihe cluster started, or whether any of the infected were linked to outbreaks in other regions.China's high vaccination rate would in principle allow it to shift to a less disruptive endemic strategy, said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics.
Jiamusi city, also on the Heilongjiang-Russia border, has yet to report local cases in the latest outbreak, but said it will be on alert for a week until Nov 3. It required tourist sites to bar tourists from outside of Jiamusi, demanded reduction in gatherings and halted visits to elderly homes and mental health facilities.
Another two cities in Heilongjiang, Jixi and Mudanjiang, pledged to enter into a"pre-war" mode of high vigilance and stringent monitoring, though no local infections have been reported yet in the past week. Some small border towns in northwestern and southwestern China, battling a higher risk of infections imported from overseas while equipped with relatively few resources, have suffered more severe disruptions than richer cities in China's efforts to clear infections.
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