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Cities under lockdown in China. Place Province Start date End date City level Population Cases Deaths Recoveries Active Wuhan: Hubei: 2020-01-23 2020-04-08 [1] [2] [3]
People in Wuhan rush to buy vegetables. On 23 January 2020, the central government of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei in an effort to quarantine the center of an outbreak of COVID-19; this action was commonly referred to as the Wuhan lockdown (Chinese: 武汉封城; pinyin: Wǔhàn fēng chéng).
China was the first country to enforce the quarantine and lockdown of cities and later whole provinces in late January 2020. Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping said he personally authorized the unprecedented lockdown of Wuhan and other cities beginning on 23 January. [136]
The Chinese commercial hub, home to 26 million people, is on the fourth day of a 10-day lockdown that was to cover the city in two phases, with first the east and then the west entering lockdowns ...
China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks ...
It was the latest wrinkle in the lockdown of China's largest city as it struggles to eliminate an omicron-driven coronavirus outbreak under China's zero-COVID policy. Shanghai's 26 million ...
Lockdown measures continue to spread to other cities in China as restrictions on movement were reported in Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan and Ningde. [154] [155] On 16 April, a temporary partial lockdown was again imposed in Xi'an after dozens of infections were reported. [156] On 19 April, Tangshan re-enforced partial lockdowns in some of its ...
By August 2021, China had donated 700 million vaccine doses abroad, an amount more than all other countries had combined. [18]: 199 In 2022, infection rates increased, and on 3 April 2022, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the 2020 outbreak.