tourist spot Sanya, in the southern Chinese island of Hainan, continues for the third day in a row off and enforcing a ban for its residents and about 80,000 tourists after declaring a focus of covid-19 last Saturday. The island authorities decided to take these measures one after the other. Steady rise in positive casesWhich experienced a sudden outburst on Friday, rising from 24 confirmed cases to 127 in just one day.
Since the beginning of this month – the peak of the tourist season in Sanya – there has been 983 Transitionswhose translation. has been done in all flights canceled more tickets Train To get out of town. Tourists who want to leave this area must Negative in five PCR tests According to officials within seven days.
In Airport Hundreds of people of the city tried unsuccessfully get flights To return to their homes, many of them are worried about the delay education of their children. Other tourists have complained that cost Staying longer is excessive.
Therefore, at the request of the authorities, the hotels have had to reduce at half prices for your guests during lockdown in front of a huge amount of visitors who were trapped in Sanya. However, according to several local media reports, some tourists expressed their uneasiness after seeing it. their rates went up to four times,
many hotel And the housing houses clarified that it is the middlemen’s fault and they can only modify price on their web pages. a 13 member family complained on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of censored Twitter, that Expansion He will have to pay the cost of staying in a well-known hotel in Sanya 180,000 yuan (26.136 euros).
China maintains a Strict zero tolerance policy Against the coronavirus that has allowed it to withstand various outbreaks since the beginning of the pandemic lockdownMass testing or its near complete completion borders, Although the advent of the Omicron version has put a halt to that tactic, Beijing insists it will continue to use it in any case. new outbreak which may arise.
