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The prices of almost thirty foods linked to the field have increased almost 16% in the last month due to their shortage. The second reason for the call for the provision of food lies in the markets themselves, seriously affected by the torrential rains of recent months and which have ruined crops in several regions traditionally supplying vegetables, livestock and poultry. To all this must be added the bankruptcy of the producers. It should be noted that, despite being the first country officially affected by the epidemic – which also apparently emerged in its own bosom, the city of Wuhan – China has so far registered 97,314 cases, with 4,636 deaths, which is attributed to the effectiveness of its ‘zero-policy’. The National Health Commission has warned that the Chinese health situation is “serious”, the virus spreads “rapidly” and it is foreseeable that the Government will issue new draconian regulations in the coming hours. It is also about the foreseeable closures decreed in the coming weeks to catch the households supplied. Despite the fact that food is part of an essential service, confinements and mobility restrictions meant that many food and basic items did not reach the shops then and the authorities fear that the same problems could be reproduced in different cities if the infections continue and quarantines happen. The appeal seems clearly linked to outbreaks and reminds many Chinese of the situation experienced in 2020, when the first virus wave caused serious distribution problems and shortages. Nobody wants the Beijing Games to become a copycat of the recent Japanese debacle at the Olympics. This comes as the result of a coronavirus outbreak in the country that has reportedly already spread among 16 provinces. But the fact that contagions are reluctant to decrease together with the ‘Covid-0’ strategy of the Chinese Executive – which at the time served to control the pandemic effectively – have already led to the confinement of eight million citizens, six of them in Lanzhou, a city 1,700 kilometers from the capital. China’s The Ministry of Commerce issued a statement on Tuesday, November 2, telling families to make efforts to ensure the supply of food. In the Asian giant, 163 cases have been recorded in the last 48 hours, a low percentage if one takes into account that the nation has 1.4 billion inhabitants. The resurgence has little to do with the figures recorded in the rest of the world, and even more so in Europe, where Germany fears a new wave, Romania is witnessing the collapse of its hospitals and Russia is going through a shocking episode with an average of 40,000 new ones.
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The proximity of the Winter Olympics weighs on the Asian giant to the point that its authorities have decided to adopt especially drastic measures against the virus that, as a fatal coincidence, has reappeared in several regions since October.