Beijing has virtually walled itself off to outsiders with drastic measures to protect China's seat of power against the threat of a second wave of ...
BEIJING: Beijing has virtually walled itself off to outsiders with drastic measures to protect China's seat of power against the threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections from other regions.
The measures are ultimately meant to shield the Communist Party elite from the virus, said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy. "When they see where I'm from, the conversation stops. I can't even get an interview. I've been out of work since February," she said.
They must first request to return to Beijing through an app when they receive their negative diagnosis. One day before her train was due to leave, her residential compound said she needed to obtain a paper copy of her negative certificate from the hospital.
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