China’s Inner Mongolia quarantines tourists amid COVID-19 resurgence
More than 2,000 tourists visiting China The Inner Mongolia region has been sent to hotels to undergo two weeks of quarantine following the detection of new COVID-19 cases in the region.
The move follows reports of a COVID-19 outbreak in the vast, sparsely populated region that attracts visitors with its mountains, lakes and grasslands.
A regional government announcement on Friday said 2,428 visitors had been placed under observation at hotels in Baotou and Ordos cities.
Service workers line up for a COVID-19 test during a mass test at a site bearing the words ‘You and I on the road to civilisation’ in Beijing on Friday, following a spike of coronavirus in the capital and other provinces.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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This follows successive reports of new cases of local infection in the region, with Inner Mongolia accounting for 19 of the 48 new cases of domestic transmission announced on Friday.
Quarantines are typical of the strict measures China has taken to control the pandemic, which also include wearing masks, electronic case tracing, mass testing, lockdowns and vaccinations.
In this aerial photo released by Xinhua News Agency, stranded self-driving tourists prepare to leave Alxa League’s Ejina Banner for two-week quarantine hotels on Thursday in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the northern China.
(Wang Xuebing/Xinhua via AP)
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In the city of Lanzhou in Gansu province bordering Inner Mongolia, millions of people have been largely confined to their homes over the past week after cases were detected there. Ten new cases were reported in the city on Friday.
A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks through a line of masked service sector women waiting to receive a swab for the COVID-19 test during a mass test in Beijing on Friday, following a peak of the coronavirus in the capital and other provinces.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China has reported 4,636 deaths among the 91,665 COVID-19 cases recorded in the country since the first infections were detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.