Chinese health authorities forcibly quarantined all 670 students and staff at a university campus in Beijing’s Fangshan district on Thursday after at least one person on the campus tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus. South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Fangshan District spokesperson Zhang Mingzhi told reporters on May 19 that all people living at Beijing Institute of Technology’s Fangshan campus were “isolated” the previous day after health officials deemed the campus and its surroundings “high risk”. For the Chinese coronavirus.
“After receiving a report that someone on campus had tested positive, Fangshan District organized nucleic acid tests and rapid antigen testing for almost everyone,” he said, adding that “contact tracing was also carried out.”
Beijing is currently experiencing the latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus. The city of 21.3 million first saw the outbreak on April 22, and the first batch of testing for the disease was ordered on April 25. Chaoyang is China’s first residential district to be closed on April 28 as part of the latest coronavirus outbreak in Beijing. .
Both Chaoyang District and Fangshan District have recently imposed restrictions on action against the epidemic at the local branches of Beijing University of Technology. A May 19 report by China’s official state news agency, Xinhua, said that Beijing University of Technology’s Chaoyang District campus has been under strict quarantine since April 26. Xinhua has called for quarantine as a “closed control” system. however, it has disclosed details of a proposal where students at the Chaoyang Campus have been sealed in their dormitory rooms for the past 23 days.
Security guards examined a man who entered the Wanliu campus of Peking University near a billboard bearing the slogans “Epidemic order, precaution is responsibility” in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guang)
“Zhao [a student supervisor] Go directly to their students in their dorms to write their health records and distribute fruit. It has also been tasked with escorting students to hospitals as needed and delivering online lectures on COVID-19. [Chinese coronavirus] prevention and control,” the news agency said.
Xinhua said Zhao, 40, was tasked with “defending” the transmission of the Chinese coronavirus to student dormitories.
“In addition to serving the students under his supervision, Zhao also volunteers, assisting in bulk nucleic acid testing on campus, and distributing masks and other valuables to people,” the report said.
Xinhua described Zhao’s activities as part of a “relentless” effort to counter the epidemic that lasted “weeks” at the Beijing University of Technology campus in Chaoyang District.
Zhao himself has been banned from leaving the Chaoyang Campus since April 26 under the strict quarantine policies of the university.
“I’m staying on campus these days and I can’t go home to see my son,” he told Xinhua News Agency on May 19.
On May 15, authorities at Peking University in Beijing placed metal fences in front of dormitories that effectively isolate students from their rooms to prevent the transmission of the Chinese coronavirus. According to eyewitness videos, on May 15, some students forcibly demolished part of the fence.
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