Chinese cities have tightened anti-epidemic measures including strengthening temperature and health checking at transportation stations, as well as making appointment before entering tourist attractions to avoid large personnel flow during the National Day holidays, to ensure a safe holiday, in the wake of flare-ups triggered by new Omicron subvariant BF.7.
Several cities including Shanghai, Southwest China's Chongqing, East China's Nanjing and Urumqi in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have released requirements to residents who are going to return to cities or go back to work after the seven-day-long holidays.
On September 28, Hohhot in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region detected one local case. The Hohhot authorities said at a news briefing on October 1 that this round of outbreak was caused by Omicron subvariant BF.7 after gene sequencing. It's the first time that the new Omicron subvariant triggered a round of outbreak in Chinese mainland, according to media reports.
As of Thursday, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has reported 381 local confirmed cases including 346 in Hohhot and 1,554 asymptomatic carriers including 1,525 in Hohhot.
Several areas in Inner Mongolia including the main urban area of Ulanhot will implement static management from Friday to Sunday and three rounds of mass nucleic acid testing, to curb the virus spreading.
