China confined over 1,000 university students to their dormitories and hotels on Sunday after a COVID-19 outbreak, their zero-tolerance approach striving to cut off any chance of the virus spreading, the Associated Press reported.
The nearly 1,500 Zhuanghe University City students were placed in lockdown in their dorms Sunday after several dozen COVID-19 cases were reported in the northeastern city of Dalian. The students are having meals delivered to their rooms as they are not allowed to leave, and are attending class remotely from their dormitories or hotel rooms.
On Monday, the National Health Commission announced 32 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 25 of them in Dalian.
China continues to enforce strict zero-tolerance quarantine, testing and other restrictions. Its vaccination rate is among the highest in the world, and authorities are beginning to administer booster shots as winter begins.
Following a recent Disneyland Shanghai lockdown of tens of thousands of visitors inside the park, China last week placed over 9,000 tourists into quarantine after visiting the Gobi Desert as COVID-19 cases were discovered in a nearby city.
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China confined over a thousand university students to their dormitories and hotels on Sunday after a COVID-19 outbreak, their zero-tolerance approach striving to cut off any chance of the virus spreading. Above, people wearing face...China confined over a thousand university students to their dormitories and hotels on Sunday after a COVID-19 outbreak, their zero-tolerance approach striving to cut off any chance of the virus spreading. Above, people wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 wait in line to enter a store at an outdoor shopping center in Beijing, China, on November 13, 2021. Mark Schiefelbein/Associated PressWhile those measures have met little open resistance, the recent killing of a quarantined person's pet dog by health workers brought a wave of complaints online. The incident in the central city of Shangrao prompted local authorities to issue a statement saying the pet owner and health workers had "reached an understanding."
Following the incident, the China Small Animal Protection Association called for a quarantine system to care for pets caught in such situations.
"Pets are people's spiritual partners and should not be harmed under the pretext of fighting the pandemic," it said in a statement. "If you bring the hand of doom down on an innocent life without the slightest ability to defend itself, then how can you even talk about humanitarianism?"
Among other new measures, Beijing starting Wednesday will require all people arriving from other parts of the country by plane, train, bus or car to produce a negative virus test taken over the previous 48 hours.
Despite isolated cases in various parts of the country, China has been able to suppress major outbreaks over the past year, with its total number of reported cases standing at 98,315 with 4,636 deaths.
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