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[Warm] Xi’An in COVID return panic

[Warm] Xi’An in COVID return panic

The 21 October at 7 p.m., 65 high risk areas are announced by the authorities, with 73 moderate risk areas. Rumors are flooding the networks, and everyone expects a citywide lockdown, who counts 13 millions of inhabitants.

People flock to food

As the first rumors of an epidemic recovery begin to travel the networks, the population threw themselves on the department stores to rob them. In memory, the last lockdown, disastrous. A large part of the inhabitants of the city then lacked food, a shortage that was very badly experienced.

To ignite the internet, one word was enough: “Silent management” [silent management]. Interviewed by EIR, a witness from the city of Tianjin translates it thus : “everything just stop. The whole city is in silence. So to control the pandemic“.

Concretely, this means that people in the area are prohibited from leaving their homes“, can we read on an official website.

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