Beijing cancels hundreds of flights to fight coronavirus – AFP reported that Beijing speeds up measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 to prepare to host the Winter Olympics By Friday, Oct. 29, hundreds of flights were cancelled. It follows from on October 28 that two high-speed trains were halted to send more than 450 passengers for testing after train workers were found to have interacted with the infected.
Although China reported only 48 new cases of coronavirus a day, bringing the week’s total to less than 250, officials didn’t want the situation to escalate into a cluster affecting the country’s economy. Prepare for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in February 2022.
The Chinese authorities are still locking down the city of Heihe. Heilongjiang province, population 1.6 million, became the third city on Oct. 28 after the Lanzhou city lockdown. The capital city of Gansu province, with a population of 4 million since Oct. 25, was followed by Ergina with a population of nearly 36,000 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The cumulative total of COVID-19 patients China’s total number of people stood at 97,002, with at least 4,636 deaths.
