Nearly 100,000 tourists were stranded on south China's Hainan Island for at least a week after authorities imposed Covid. expected to remain. Lockdown.
Hainan Island in the South China Sea was put on lockdown on Saturday. Tourists, mainly from other parts of the country, are unable to leave their hotels and expect to be stuck in them. Ticket sales have stopped, and Variflight data shows that 80% of flights to and from the island's capital, Sanya, have been cancelled.
Many people have said that since the pandemic began, after strict quarantine rules and curbing tourism, only two cases of his Covid with positive symptoms were recorded for the entirety of 2021, so the island could We believed it to be a safe choice for vacation.
However, in the first week of this month, the number of infected people exceeded 1,000, and tourists are expected to remain on the island at least until the weekend.
Sanya reported 689 symptomatic cases and 282 asymptomatic cases. Other cities around Hainan, including Danzhou, Dongfang, Lingshui and Lin'ao, have reported more than a dozen cases over the same period.
Meanwhile, China as a whole recorded a total of 1,376 symptomatic and 2,508 asymptomatic cases between August 1 and 7, according to Worldometer data.
On Saturday, the first day of Hainan's lockdown, the Sanya city government promised tourists with canceled flights to book hotel rooms at half price.
But on Sunday, dozens of tourists complained on the WeChat social platform that their room rates were not discounted. I am staying in a 4 star hotel with my children and have to live on instant noodles to keep my expenses down.
"This is the worst vacation of my life," the 40-year-old man from southern China's Jiangxi province told Reuters.
A foreign tourist living in China was in Sanya on his honeymoon. He said stranded tourists have to pay higher rates for food delivery and hotel meals while hotel food is in short supply.
4 "I just hope it doesn't become another Shanghai," he added, referring to the city's two-month lockdown imposed on March 1.
Another tourist, a woman from the eastern province of Jiangsu, whose only surname is her Zhou, was vacationing with six relatives. She told Reuters they were "never coming back."
Sanya officials said stranded tourists could depart from Saturday if they each tested negative for five Covid tests.
