HONG KONG—Wuhan, the central Chinese city that was the epicenter of the early Covid-19 outbreak, locked down a district of about 1 million people due to four asymptomatic cases, as the nation’s leaders maintain their zero tolerance toward the virus, a policy that has cast a shadow over both the national and global economies.
Local authorities announced that the district of Jiangxia would enforce a 3-day “temporary restriction” from Wednesday, and most of the businesses would be closed. The district will also ban large gatherings and dining inside restaurants, close entertainment venues and suspend most public transportation services. The four cases detected in Hubei’s capital were the only new infections in the province.
It is the first time that Wuhan has imposed a restriction since late January in 2020, when the city had the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, which lasted for 76 days. Last month, Chinese leader
Xi Jinping
visited the city and said the country would rather sacrifice some of its economic development to remain Covid zero.
The central government has taken a stringent approach to fight the virus, locking down buildings, districts or whole cities for days or weeks over a single-digit number of Covid cases.
Shenzhen ordered companies including BYD Co. to tighten employee movements; workers at the electric car maker took a company shuttle this month.
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Most recently, the Shenzhen government ordered the city’s biggest companies, including telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and electric car maker
BYD Co.
, to tighten controls over employees’ movements and test workers daily for Covid-19 as it tries to eradicate a persistent outbreak in the southern Chinese technology and manufacturing hub.
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