Residents of Beijing got food and other supplies on Monday as the city’s largest district began a mass inspection of all residents.
Late Sunday, the authorities of Chaoyang, home to 3.45 million people, ordered residents and those working there to undergo three inspections after Beijing warned.
“I’m preparing for the worst,” said a graduate student in nearby Haidian District, Zhang. He ordered dozens of snacks and 10 pounds of apples online.
Shoppers in the city crowded stores and online platforms to stock up on leafy vegetables, fresh meat, instant noodles, and rolls of toilet paper.
In Shanghai, where most of the 25 million inhabitants have been detained for several weeks, the main food supply bottleneck is that there are not enough courier services to deliver to home, fueling the inhabitants’ anger.
In Beijing, supermarket chains such as Carrefour and Wumart have more than doubled inventories, while Meituan’s grocery-focused e-commerce platform has increased the number of staff for inventory, sorting and delivery. Received national support Beijing Daily.
Since Friday, Beijing has reported 47 locally infected cases, with Chaoyang accounting for more than half.
Even in areas such as Haidian, where nothing has been reported in this outbreak, concerns about food supply are increasing.
Blockade area
Although the number of cases in the Chinese capital is small compared to the number in the world and hundreds of thousands in Shanghai, Chaoyang District has told residents to reduce public activities, but most schools, stores and offices are still open. Up to.
Chaoyang District is home to many wealthy residents, most foreign embassies, entertainment venues and headquarters. There is almost no production.
“The current outbreak in Beijing remains unknown and is secretly spreading from rapidly developing sources,” a municipal official said Sunday.
More than 12 buildings in Chaoyang have been closed. In the rest of the district, people were to be tested on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
On Monday morning, people lined up at a temporary test site where medical workers in protective clothing were stationed. In a mass testing campaign in China, multiple samples are tested together.
“I came at 6 am, as the notice suggests, for a test to make sure I can work on time,” 30 lining up for a test in a residential area. The man in his teens said.
By early afternoon, state television said that restrictions on movement in parts of Chaoyang would be tightened, and residents would not leave the area at all, and for non-essential reasons, not to leave local compounds. I was.
