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"Nakaba City Blockdown"

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The Beijing Winter Olympics, which began on February 4, have caused various distortions in the lives of Chinese citizens. "It was like having a blockade in the city," lamented Mr. Lee (female, 40s), a citizen of Tianjin. On January 8, China's first community-acquired Omicron strain was confirmed in the city adjacent to Beijing. "You need a permit to get out of Tianjin, but it's not so easy to get. Even if you get a permit, flights and high-speed rail will be reduced, roads are full of inspections, and it's so easy to move. I can't do it. "(Mr. Lee) I was planning to go home to my parents' house in Shandong Province during the Lunar New Year, but all of them became par. She complains that she wouldn't have been so regulated without the Beijing Olympics, even though she thought it couldn't be helped to combat corona. Two years have passed since the epidemic of the new coronavirus. China has set clear standards and implemented corona measures. It is a method of blocking the area in a limited area, such as a housing complex where infected people have appeared. Where infected or close contacts stop by, they are ordered to be banned for several days and have a PCR test, but if no infected person is found there, they will be released. It is a measure to implement zero corona measures in a way that does not burden social life as much as possible, but Tianjin's measures have become stricter than in other regions. The number of infected people confirmed was 361, and most of them are concentrated in the area called Jinnan District. With the conventional method, it should not be so burdensome in other wards. The measures taken by Beijing, the venue for the Winter Olympics, are even more stringent. I'm trying to eliminate all kinds of risks. Athletes and reporters from abroad are prohibited from going out into the city because of the risk of infection. It is informed that even if an accident occurs in which a player collides with a car, he / she should not talk to the other person at all so as not to contact the citizens. There are other measures to get into the details. On January 23, the Beijing Municipal Government ordered citizens who purchased antipyretics and cough medicines within the past two weeks to undergo a PCR test within 72 hours. If you are not feeling well, you are suspected of being infected. Citizens cannot ignore this instruction. This is because Beijing is obliged to show an ID card to purchase antipyretics and cough medicines. The government has all the data on who bought the drug and when. The buyer's smartphone will display a message to be inspected immediately.

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