Hundreds of thousands of residents in a county of Fujian Province on China’s southeastern coast received orders to undergo nucleic acid testing as a fresh COVID-19 outbreak hit the region.
“Students of that school [where the confirmed cases reported] have been sent to a hotel for quarantine,” local resident Ming Lan (pseudonym) told The Epoch Times on Sept. 11. Ming lives in the same community where the two pupils study, but she refused to disclose the name of the school.
Ming said the roads surrounding the school are closed. She added that her children, studying in another primary school in the town, are currently self-quarantined at home.
The county’s educational bureau confirmed to The Epoch Times on Tuesday that all educational institutions, including primary and middle schools, shut their doors. Students are now studying in online courses.
Meanwhile, authorities announced a new round of mass testing on Friday while suspending transportation and closing most stores.
The local panel tasked with preventing and controlling the CCP virus ordered workers to stay at factory dormitories beginning Monday. They did not give a date for easing restrictions.
The Chinese regime had adopted color-based QR code systems based on big data and mobile technology to control people’s movement. The system assigns citizens three barcodes on mobile phones, including a health code, an itinerary code, and a vaccination code.
The colors of amber or red restrict people from leaving home, taking buses, trains, or planes, and entering supermarkets and restaurants.
A local car shop staff member who gave his surname Liu told The Epoch Times that most people’s health barcodes turned amber, with only a few people showing green after Monday’s test.
The county’s health authorities didn’t answer calls from The Epoch Times.
Similarly, Xiamen city and Quanzhou city have cut schools’ offline classes, closed non-essential stores, ordered people to stay at home, and launched mass testing in districts where related infections are reported.