China’s state media have been reporting in recent days that the CCP virus is flaring up in different parts of the country, leading to international events being postponed, districts going into lockdown, and residents in outbreak areas being tested overnight.
Local authorities in Yingkou, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, on May 15
reported that 13 local cases of
CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus transmission, linked to a photography studio. Nine areas across the city of 2 million people have been elevated to medium CCP virus risk, and tens of thousands of residents were lining up to be tested overnight.
According to the official report, all confirmed cases are employees of the Golden Childhood Photography Studio and are close contacts of individuals, named Li and Lu, who tested positive in Anhui Province on May 13. That’s led to local officials in Anhui and Liaoning blaming each other over the outbreak.
On May 13, five cases were confirmed in Anhui’s provincial capital of Hefei, as well as in Lu'an city. The official notification identified Li, a resident in Feixi county of Hefei city who had visited three other provinces and five cities in the past 18 days, as the source of the local cluster. The Anhui Provincial Office of Epidemic Prevention and Control issued a notice on May 14 stating that Li had traveled to Dalian, in Liaoning, and was in close contact with an infected patient there, while the Dalian Center for Disease Control and Prevention
rejected the claim.
The actual numbers of infected people in Yingkou and Anhui province are unknown, since the Chinese communist regime has a history of downplaying or covering up crises.
The cases triggered local officials to track down 3,048 people as close contacts. Both provinces have also
postponed events, including the Anhui Huangshan International Marathon, the 14th Anhui International Tea Industry Expo, and Dalian International Walking Festival.
The Bayuquan district of Yingkou and residential neighborhoods in Lu’an have been under lockdown since May 14.
Meanwhile, mandatary mass testing for the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, has been carried out in both provinces.
Tens of thousands of people have already been tested in Feixi County in Anhui.
