Xian Lockdown Lifted

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The city of Xian, China lifted its covid-19 lockdown on Monday after a month of imposing some of the toughest public health measures in the world, according to Chinese state media the Global Times. But the lockdown worked. Xian, which has a population of 13 million people, hasn’t had a new case of covid-19 since three cases were detected on Jan. 20.

The lockdown in Xian, which started on Dec. 23, 2021, attracted international attention as one of the harshest covid-related public health measures on the planet, and western media ran story after story about how the Chinese people were suffering. Daily cases climbed to a peak of 334 on Dec 27. but started to come back down after the strict measures were put into place.

very glad this is over for those poor people.

People in Xian were banned from leaving their homes for weeks, with food deliveries becoming sparse for some elderly people who didn’t know how to use food delivery apps

big government giveth, big government taketh away