The almost 1 million-person Jiangxia district of Wuhan said on Wednesday that it would prohibit big group gatherings and restaurant dining, close several public entertainment facilities and agricultural markets, and suspend bus and subway services for the ensuing three days.Īuthorities also asked locals to stay put over the three-day period and warned visitors not to enter.
Wuhan is a large city where the epidemic first appeared. Wuhan, China, closes companies and transports over 4 COVID casesĪuthorities in Wuhan, China, shut down several businesses and public transportation after finding four cases of COVID-19 there. The Guangxi area in the south, which reported 269 cases on Tuesday, and the province of Gansu in the northwest, which saw 234 new infections, are the hotspots where the majority of cases in China are concentrated. Operations at 17 steel warehouses were shut down starting on Tuesday for three days, according to a survey by the researcher Mysteel, and some steel scrap transportation was also impeded.Īn enquiry from Bloomberg News regarding its warehouse operations was not immediately answered by Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., the listed division of the largest steelmaker in the world. Local transportation associations have suggested operating warehouses under a closed-loop system in order to contain the viral crisis in the city’s Baoshan district, which discovered outbreaks among logistics workers. In order to lower the possibility of an outbreak, the financial center is undertaking two rounds of required mass testing this week in nine of its 16 districts. See also Marriott says up to 500 million Starwood Hotels customers affected by hackġ6 local cases, including one that was found outside of quarantine, were reported from Shanghai elsewhere.