There are new cases of COVID-19 identified in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, where due to travel restrictions, 80,000 visitors are trapped until they screen negative.
Sanya, a beach tourist city in Hainan, is now a COVID-19 hotspot
On Saturday, August 6th, authorities declared Sanya, a beach vacation city in the Hainan province, a COVID-19 hot site and imposed a lockdown. They had believed that today would be a day free from the strict controls that most of China is subject to.
Visitors who wish to depart Sanya must successfully complete five coronavirus PCR tests with a negative outcome over the course of seven days. On Monday, China reported 483 symptomless instances that it separated from the 324 new locally distributed cases.
Travelers who want to leave Sanya must screen negative for the coronavirus.
Despite the financial and societal implications, China has stubbornly adhered to a “zero-COVID” policy. With higher vaccination rates, more potent treatments, and the introduction of the more infectious but less deadly strain of the virus, it has been claimed that this strategy has kept hospitalization and mortality rates down than in other nations that have opened up.
