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In #China what do you do when you’ve bought an apartment and 5 years later it’s still in a shell of building? We met the people who just moved in and started living in concrete caves without power or water… bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
These people are living in really tough conditions: sweltering heat, no water, no power. They say they have nowhere else to go. This is the front line of #China’s property crisis. Modern cave existence: The people living in unfinished apartments bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
As a result of our visit (see video link below), the authorities had a meeting with the developers and the residents and ordered that work resume on this building. So far though these people in #Xian have seen no evidence of the developers resuming work. bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
#Covid cases taking off in #China's #Anhui and #Jiangsu provinces. Also, in the city of #Xian, restaurants will halt in-house dining for 7 days, schools will start holidays early and universities locked down after a #coronavirus outbreak. New infections in #Beijing & #Shanghai.
Over the next three days in #Shanghai, 9 of 16 districts have announced two rounds of compulsory #Covid testing for all residents. People have been told they need to produce a negative #Coronavirus test in order to leave their housing compounds. #China
#China today has city-wide #Covid lockdowns in place in #Shenzhen (12.5 million people), #Dongguan (10.5 million), #Langfang (5.5 million) + a province-wide lockdown in #Jilin (24 million residents). Also quasi-lockdown provisions, in #Shanghai (26 million) & #Xian (13 million).
The current situation in Xi'an #Xian illustrates how important it is to “disaggregate China", at least when trying to understand what caused the difficulties that are reported these days. A thread. 1/ 
When I looked at lockdown coverage on Chinese social media, I made out four broad types of posts:
1) government propaganda on the logistics of delivering food to 13 million people (sometimes reposted with satirical undertones, sometimes with commenters mocking the content); 2/
1) government propaganda on the logistics of delivering food to 13 million people (sometimes reposted with satirical undertones, sometimes with commenters mocking the content); 2/
2) an increasing number of complaints by residents who say they have run out or are running out of food; 3/
#Xian #COVID19 outbreak update. Official numbers are showing no sign yet of a downward curve in infection numbers in the city. In recent weeks, the official figures have recorded around a thousand infections with symptoms which must mean no easing up on the lockdown there yet?
Today another 155 new local #COVID19 infections with symptoms in #China’s Shaanxi Province. This takes the official total, since 9th of December, to 1117 in #Xian. No easing of a strict lockdown in that northern Chinese city yet with those numbers.
The #Xian lockdown has also become more strict in recent days. Officials have stopped letting 1 person from each household leaving to buy supplies every 2 days. Because the announcement came quickly people are all over social media there saying they’re desperately short of food.
Uno de los prodigios del otoño chino es ver la caída de las hojas del #Ginkgo más antiguo del mundo. Tiene 1.400 años y está en un templo budista cerca de #Xian. Estos árboles, considerados "fósiles vivientes", fueron una de las primeras plantas que aparecieron sobre la Tierra.
#BREAKING
#CHINA #XIAN #CORONAVIRUS
On Thursday, China reported the first corona case since February that was not brought in from abroad. Now it turns out that the affected woman was already vaccinated. It is a hospital employee, as reported by the Chinese state media.
#CHINA #XIAN #CORONAVIRUS
On Thursday, China reported the first corona case since February that was not brought in from abroad. Now it turns out that the affected woman was already vaccinated. It is a hospital employee, as reported by the Chinese state media.
She was vaccinated in late January and early February. Since the beginning of March she has been working at a quarantine station in Xi'an, the capital of the central Chinese province Shaanxi, where she was responsible for collecting samples for corona tests,
writes the "Health Times". The newspaper quotes Zeng Guang, the former chief epidemiologist at China's Center for Disease Control, according to which vaccination does not protect 100 percent against infection, but 90 percent protect against severe disease.
