On April 9, a residential neighborhood with an area of about 2 square miles in Beijing’s densely populated Chaoyang district was declared a high-risk area, because in the past 14 days, there were eight confirmed local cases of COVID-19 infection, according to the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
China’s zero-COVID policy does not allow people in the high-risk area to leave their homes, while people in the surrounding areas are allowed to leave their homes but not the community, and they are not allowed to congregate.
