The Suifenhe River is located in Heilongjiang Province, northeast of China, with a total population of less than 80,000 people
In Wuhan, China ushered in the first day of "unsealing ", thousands of miles away from the small northeast town Suifenhe suddenly re-declared the closure of the city`s residential district.
The suifen river in heilongjiang province, close to russia`s coastal border, has a population of less than 80,000. But over the past week, with a large number of chinese returning from russia, the city has been diagnosed with more than 100 people, facing enormous epidemic pressure.
China has announced the temporary closure of all land border crossings between the two countries. China`s consulate in Russia also warned that the route from Suifenhe "exists a huge risk of infection ", hoping that the Chinese citizen do not try.
A local told The British Broadcasting Corporation that many Suifenhe citizens had gone to other places to avoid the outbreak. authorities brought together nearly 300 people to treat patients at Suifenhe Day after night in a large "square cabin hospital ".
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The border town became the front line
China`s state media reported on wednesday (april 8) that all districts in suifenhe city, near the border between china and russia in heilongjiang province, have been closed since june 6. authorities require local & quot; strictly observe residential gate, corridor unit door & residents & quot;.
The sudden closure of the suifen river has not surprised much, and the tiny russian town has been the fastest-growing region of imported cases outside china in the past week. According to the Heilongjiang Provincial Health and Health Commission on Thursday circulate a notice, the province added only the previous day to 40 new cases of imported confirmed cases and 23 cases of asymptomatic infection, all from the Suifenhe port.
Official data show that these passengers from russia to china, are china citizen. because the suifen river port is the only china-russia still open land port, these confirmed cases are by plane from moscow to vladivostok (vladivostok, Vladivostok), and then by car to the suifen river.
Russian exports of Chinese timber through Suifenhe train Station (data photo 2005)
More than half of new cases were imported into China, where border land crossings were closed
Such imported cases have been increasing almost daily since april 1. On april 5th the suifenhe added 20 new confirmed cases, more than half the 38 new imported cases across china that day, making residents in the otherwise sparsely populated area nervous.
"Of course we`re scared. Many people are leave here now ," a woman who runs a bakery in Suifenhe told The British Broadcasting Corporation. "But we can`t go because there`s a storefront to look after. "
A duty officer at a local restaurant told The British Broadcasting Corporation that it was usually their peak season, usually with nearly a thousand customers a day, but two days ago they were told to close immediately and it was not known when they could reopen.
However, the duty officer stated that he "felt very secure" and believed that government would eventually be able to respond properly to the outbreak, as a result of stringent local measures such as closed cells.
Images uploaded to social media showed large numbers of police and medical personnel wearing white protective clothing were on guard near the port during the heavy snow. According to the authorities, close to 141 professionals have been deployed to support from other parts of the province.
In addition, from 6 April, the local reconstruction of the "square-cabin hospital" on the basis of a 13-storey office building is expected to be completed and operational on Saturday (11 April), with 3 to 11 floors for the treatment of patients and more than 600 beds expected.
The Russian epidemic is severe
The suifenhe port, known as the "century-old port ", was the gateway to china and russia as early as the 19th century, only 190km from vladivostok, now russia`s largest port city in the far east. As russia announced that all international flights would be suspended by the end of last month, many chinese citizen in russia have opted to return from vladivostok via land crossings.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizen do business and study in Russia. Chinese officials say most of the current confirmed cases of Suifenhe are individual businesses in Russia.
China`s embassy in russia released a notice wednesday (april 8), under pressure from new cases, saying the border crossing between china and russia, including the suifenhe port, has now been closed. The embassy hopes to "isolate itself and avoid long-distance travel ."
The main reason for the return tide of Russian Chinese is the increasingly severe epidemic situation in Russia.
Russia has added 1,459 new cases of pneumonia in the past 24 hours to a single-day high, bringing the country`s cumulative number of confirmed cases to 10,131, the 18th country with a record number of confirmed cases, most of them in the capital, moscow, according to official figures thursday.
There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizen who do business and study in Russia because of their close political and economic relationship, ties. As the return channels were significantly reduced, more people chose to stay.
"Russia`s epidemic is getting worse, saying it`s false not to worry ," Chinese student Li Yiling told The British Broadcasting Corporation. She is a graduate student at Moscow State University, Russia. Ms. li said she thought the risk of long-distance flight infection was even greater because of the large number of passengers from europe in moscow, and that she had three pet cats and dogs who couldn`t fly on the plane, making her decide to stay at home in moscow.
"There are Chinese businessmen who don`t have access to the distribution of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat, so they can live well ," she said.
"In Russia, Chinese people are almost completely isolated at home, but there are too many people walking around the streets without masks, feeling they are not aware of the severity of the epidemic ," she added.
Russia`s epidemic has deteriorated rapidly, with the number of confirmed cases exceeding 10,000
At one point, Russia maintained a slower numerical growth in the early days of the European epidemic. Russia reported its first death case only on march 19th, when it reported fewer than 200 people diagnosed nationwide.
But Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianin (Sergey Sobyanin) publicly warned Putin on 24 March that the actual number of patients in Russia was "much larger" than the official figure. He said that many people who returned from countries in Europe`s worst-hit areas had not been tested.
At the end of March, Dennis Prozoko (Denis Protsenko), head of a designated hospital in Moscow that received patients with new crown pneumonia, was also diagnosed with the new crown virus, and he met Putin a week ago and shook hands.
Veronica Scovorzova (Veronika Skvortsova), director of biomedical research in the Russian Federation, said Tuesday (April 7) that Russia`s new crown pneumonia epidemic will usher in a peak in the next 10 to 14 days.
Continuous increase in incoming cases
In China, the local epidemic was greatly alleviated in late March. Official figures show that the vast majority of new cases, with the exception of sporadic reported confirmed cases, are imported from abroad.
A total of 63 new confirmed cases were reported in 31 provinces on thursday, including 61 imported overseas cases and 2 local cases in guangdong province, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 81865 in china and 3335 in death.
According to The British Broadcasting Corporation statistics, the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States are the three main source countries for imported cases outside China. Among them ,279 cases were confirmed from the United Kingdom to China ,169 in Russia and 151 in the United States.
Among them, the number of diagnosed in Britain has reached 60,000, while the number of diagnosed in the United States has exceeded 430,000.
Because the country`s biggest international airports are located in beijing, shanghai and guangdong, these three places have become a major disaster area for imported cases abroad.
Beijing has announced that because of its inability to undertake a large number of testing and isolation tasks, all international flights destined for Beijing need to enter from designated 12 other city airports.
