The novel coronavirus has been spreading outside Hubei Province. By Feb 4, 2020, a total of 27 cities across China had been placed under tight control. Among them, 17 cities are in Hubei province.
Five cities, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Zhengzhou, and Harbin are the capital cities of the respective Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Henan, and Heilongjiang Provinces. Other major cities including Ningbo in Zhejing Province and Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province have taken similar measures.
There are also reports that Shanghai has locked down many residential communities. Only people inside the community can enter or leave the community. Anyone outside cannot enter without official authorization. Ms. Rose Luqiu, former executive news editor of Phoenix TV, noted this on her tweet.
In a smaller city, Zhumadian in Henan Province (population 7.2 million), every five days a family will be allowed to send one person to go out to buy daily necessities. Similar measure has been imposed in other cities.
1. Excerpt in Chinese:
武漢肺炎擴大，在大陸境內已經突破2萬名確診病患，持續增加中。為了防堵疫情，大陸不斷使用封城措施，本周二又有9個城市宣布封城，分別為浙江省的杭州市、樂清市、寧波市；河南省的鄭州市；山東省的臨沂市；黑龍江省的哈爾濱市；福建省的福州市；江蘇省省會南京市、徐州市。
其中南京市人口超過800萬，封城影響甚鉅。截至目前，南京市的確診人數為44例，為防止擴大，從4日起，進出市區皆須逐車逐人登記，檢測體溫並配戴口罩。市區內公共場所限制營業時間，暫停各類工程施工。
杭州市人口約1200萬人，為阿里巴巴的總部所在地，距離上海市不到200公里，杭州市宣布封城，對於上海經濟圈影響重大。
目前，包含湖北省17個城市封城，全大陸已有27座城市進入「封閉式管理」。
Source: China Times, Feb. 5, 2020
https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200205000953-260408?chdtv
2. Image from Twitter:
Source: Twitter, February 5, 2020
上海也有小區開始封閉式管理。 pic.twitter.com/miqupum5zs
— 闾丘露薇 (@roseluqiu) February 5, 2020