CHINA. Sanya International Duty Free Shopping Complex, including CDF Mall, is reopening today at 10am, five days after being temporarily closed due to the discovery of three imported COVID-19 cases (two asymptomatic) in Sanya City.
In a notice yesterday, the China Duty Free Group-owned retailer said: “The CDF Mall building one and two will resume opening hours from 10:00-22:00 [from 8 March].”
The announcement said that a full epidemic prevention programme had been involved, including the disinfecting and sterilisation of the entire shopping mall.
Customers were reminded to always wear a facial mask when shopping in the mall, provide their health code and accept body temperature checks.
The news is a boost not only to China Duty Free Group but to Sanya and Hainan. Duty free shopping is a core attraction of the city and island, especially at the Sanya International Duty Free Shopping complex which is considered a tourism destination in its own right.
According to Hainan Hinews Media Co, The Moodie Davitt Report’s strategic partner in Hainan, local authorities moved fast to stop any spread from the discovered cases.
Nationwide, China continues to battle to keep COVID-19’s fast-spreading Omicron variant under control.
Yesterday the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China reported 214 indigenous cases (69 in Guangdong, 54 in Jilin and 46 in Qingdao), up from 175 a day earlier and 61 on 3 March. No further cases have been reported in Hainan.
While the spread across multiple regions is of serious concern, the total case number in a country of 1.41 billion people pales alongside other countries and China’s Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, which saw 25,150 new coronavirus infections yesterday (all but 32 locally transmitted).
According to Worldometer, Germany saw 104,548 new cases yesterday; France 45,328; the US 17,593; and China’s near neighbours Japan and the Republic of Korea 63,520 and 243,612 respectively. Vietnam, where international tourism will reopen on 15 March, posted 142,136 new cases; Singapore (where an extension of vaccinated travel lanes was announced last week) had 13,158 and Thailand 21,881.
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