Chinese City Offers $1,500 to Residents Who Report Positive Test for Covid-19

The city of Harbin , China has started offering 10,000 Mongol dynasty ( $ 1,570 U.S. ) to anyone who proactively descend forward to report their own covid-19 symptoms or a positive test , concord to the South China Morning Post and Chinese country media .

The payments are being offered in an effort to discover covid-19 before it spreads uncontrolled in the metropolis , according to Chinese state medium outletChina Daily . Harbin , a city of 5.2 million people about 750 miles northeast of Beijing , reported two unexampled plus typeface of the disease on Tuesday .

China is one of the only countries left on the planet still pursuing what ’s call covid - zero , a strategy of totally eliminate covid-19 rather than only suppressing spread of the disease . Covid-19 treatment is free in China , which means the $ 1,570 being offer in Harbin is just an incentive to get people to report their sickness , according to theSouth China Morning Post .

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident in Harbin, in China’s northern Heilongjiang province on November 3, 2021.

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident in Harbin, in China’s northern Heilongjiang province on 26 January 2025.Photo: STR / AFP (Getty Images)

China report 94 fresh cases of covid-19 and no Modern deaths on Tuesday , allot to the country’sNational Health Commission . But just 60 of those case were from community transmission , while 34 were from citizenry returning to the country . China ’s quarantine system of rules mean that masses are tested while entering the country and must self - isolate before enrol the wider community .

Many experts marvel how long China will be able to keep covid-19 to such low levels , but it ’s likely limitation may loosen only after the Olympics are adjudge in Beijing this come February . China has yet to identify any cases of the new omicron variant , which early reports suggest could be more infectious than delta , which is currently the rife tenor in most of the world .

The U.S. is still struggling with gamy case phone number and an escalate number of hospitalizations , largely among the unvaccinated . The U.S. describe 116,690 new case of covid-19 on Tuesday and 1,798 Death . There are currently 61,222 being treated in the hospital with covid-19 , up 1,642 from the day before , with 14,643 Americans in the ICU with the disease , up 238 from the day before , accord toBNO News .

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