![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/china-puts-210million-in-lockdown-as-two-highly-contagious-variants-emerge/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/RB-COMP-CHINA-LOCKDOWN.jpg&description=MORE than 200million people are facing a fresh lockdown in China as the Communist Party rollout draconian new restrictions despite just a handful of cases. Some 28 cities - including the virus's ground zero Wuhan - are now under a wave of crippling new measures. Data released to The Sun Online economic analysis firm Nomura shows 208million people are currently living under some level of lockdown in China. It is believed two highly contagious subvariant of Omicron - BF.7 and BA.5.1.7 - are responsible for the recent spike in cases. China officials have described the variants as "highly contagious" as they can also infect people who had been previously immune. "According to government statistics and our survey, 28 cities arecurrently implementing various levels of lockdown or some kind of district-based control measures," said Nomura. Nomura added the total number of people under restrictions has actually fallen from the previous week's figures of 225million. But the strictest of the lockdowns has actually increased and is now impacting 8.5 per cent of China's GDP. The seven-day-moving average of cases also dropped from 1,333 to 820. Beijing officials however considered this relatively low caseload in a country of 1.4billion enough to plunge millions in lockdown. More than three times the population of the whole UK is currently living under restrictions in China. Wuhan yesterday joined the 27 other cities after registering just 240 cases over the last two weeks. The city was the site of the world's first Covid outbreak - sounding the alarm to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on December 31, 2019. The outbreak then spiraled into a global pandemic that has so far killed more than 6.5million people and infected 635million. Beijing is taking a no-tolerance approach to the virus - enforcing the new rules after just 20 to 25 new infections a day this week. Chinese leader Xi Jinping - who was this week made "Emperor for Life" - is continuing to roll out what has been dubb){kind=link}
MORE than 200million people are facing a fresh lockdown in China as the Communist Party rollout draconian new restrictions despite just a handful of cases.
Some 28 cities – including the virus’s ground zero Wuhan – are now under a wave of crippling new measures.
Data released to The Sun Online economic analysis firm Nomura shows 208million people are currently living under some level of lockdown in China.
It is believed two highly contagious subvariant of Omicron – BF.7 and BA.5.1.7 – are responsible for the recent spike in cases.
China officials have described the variants as “highly contagious” as they can also infect people who had been previously immune.