Almost all flights to the airport of Urumchi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region of China, was canceled due to the outbreak of coronavirus. To tackle the infection, authorities in the Chinese city again introduced strict quarantine measures.
Nearly 600 flights or 90% of all Friday’s flights were canceled at the local airport “Diwopu”.
Some users of social networks, living in Urumqi, reported that they are not allowed to leave their residential complexes to enter in another Xinjiang city of Kashgar, and to leave it.
the First in recent months the case of the coronavirus in Urumqi were reported in 24-year-old resident of the city, on Thursday, July 16. Earlier she was taken to hospital with severe pain in the throat. After that women started to get a migraine and a high fever. Moreover, the disease was confirmed in three people, closely in contact with the patient, they COVID-19 has no symptoms.
Asymptomatic form of the disease were identified even one Urumqi resident, who recently returned from Zhejiang province, located in the East of China.
According to the Chinese newspaper Global Times, since 17 July, the number of Chinese airlines require all passengers travelling to Urumqi and departing from him to give negative test for coronavirus, by not later than seven days prior to departure. In addition, each passenger must show the airline employees “green” QR code representing the health condition of the person. Citizens who do not meet these requirements must be sent on 14-day quarantine and a medical exam.
still not clear when will lift a ban on flights. However, this is not the only restrictions imposed on the leadership of Urumqi to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The city suspended the work of the only subway lines and most of the public transport.
to prevent massive hype in the stores Urumqi, state media reported that they enough food and other commodities.
Now under medical supervision are approximately 135 residents of Xinjiang. According to local health officials, COVID-19 already identified in 17 patients, while in 11 of them the disease are asymptomatic.
