How rigorously the Chinese government is going against the Corona pandemic, can also be used from space to watch.
Because in the middle Kingdom recently a few, relatively few cases of Sars-CoV-2 occurred, did the person responsible in the city of Shijiazhuang, with hard measures: For all of the eleven million inhabitants were placed under a curfew. Also had to let all the people twice tested for the Virus.
On the outskirts of the city, which is located in the Eastern Hebei province near China’s capital Beijing, built a worker in the wind a Camp. It is designed to provide people shelter, the Corona Infected had contact. Each room has to be 18 square meters and will be equipped with a private bathroom and shower, desks, chairs, beds, W-Lan and a television, is it.
Dozens of cranes lowering a housing container next to the next. Within a very short time in a quarantine village was able to live in the more than 4000 people. Thousands of workers toiled according to the Deputy mayor of the city six days and nights. The construction of the first section began at 13. In January, CNN reports citing a Chinese state-owned transmitter.
That, and the details of truth to the air, show satellite images. 12. January was there, where the Camp is, in a sense, still a green Meadow. A few days later, several white blocks were suddenly there – they are visible on the aerial images of the Sentinel satellites of the European space Agency Esa itself out of almost 800 kilometers of height.
China’s President Xi Jinping wants to take decisive action against new corona wave. According to the state news Agency Xinhua, the country is working on various contingency plans, which will be referred to as the “Black Swan” or “Grey Rhino”. Behind the names of programs to be able to unforeseen and improbable developments, respond hide. More accurate but has not been announced.
China’s building boom is legendary. The country is known to establish within the shortest possible time cities – this is also reflected in the annual global balance sheet of the cement and concrete consumption, which leads the country by far ahead of all other Nations. The expertise of use to the authorities in the fight against the Virus may be, had already been shown in the early phase of the pandemic.
The fear of the new year
At that time, various medical institutions were crushed in a short time. Including a hospital with 1000 beds, this is supposed to be created in only ten days. May the leadership of the country but exerts great pressure on the construction workers – would not come as a surprise.
In comparison to most Western countries, the infection can move numbers in China at an extremely low level. In the province of Hebei, in the approximately 74 million people, occurred in various places in new infections. According to the information there were several Hundred, at least one Patient died.
Currently, the authorities provides a scenario: in the middle of February, China celebrates the new year. Then hundreds of millions of people travel to their family members. The authorities fear that the people might be infected in this important holiday with the Virus.
