The Wu'an Municipal CC&TSPM in China's northern Hebei Province issued a notice, requiring churches in the city to suspend all worship activities from the next morning.
The notice stated that on the afternoon of January 7, the Wu'an CC&TSPM (Christian Council & Three-Self Patriotic Movement) held an emergency meeting on China's Twitter WeChat to convey the instructions on coronavirus prevention from the municipal United Front Work Department. All the registered churches suspend activities. Believers were told to wait for further notice.
The document continued, "At present, Hebei province has entered a wartime state. The province reported 51 new confirmed local COVID-19 cases for Thursday, including 50 cases in Shijiazhuang City and one case in the city of Xingtai. The increase brought the provincial total to 90 current confirmed cases and 144 asymptomatic infections who are under medical observation, according to the Beijing News."
"Shijiazhuang and Xingtai are only about a hundred kilometers apart. According to the latest thesis on contact tracing released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the two earliest cases found in the two cities may have been exposed to the same source of infection, and the virus was likely to be from a strain originating in Russia. But It was still unclear when and how it was brought into the two cities," it explained.
As the city of Wu’an is adjacent to Xiangtai, the government commanded its churches to suspend all their public activities.
-Translated by Abigail Wu
2021年1月7日，河北武安市基督教三自爱国运动委员会发布通知，要求全市各聚会场所从1月8日起，暂停一切聚会活动。
通知中说道：“武安市基督教两会于2021年1月7日下午2:30分，在微信群里召开了一个紧急会议，传达了武安市统战部关于疫情防护的会议指示，从明天开始，暂停一切聚会活动，做好自身防护，如有变动另行通知。”
"连日来，河北因石家庄、邢台等地出现多例本地新冠肺炎新增病例受到广泛关注。目前全省已进入战时状态。据新京报消息，1月7日0时—24时，河北新增51例本地新型冠状病毒肺炎确诊病例，其中石家庄市报告50例，邢台市报告1例。截至昨日，河北现有本地确诊病例90例，尚在医学观察本地无症状感染者144例。"
"石家庄与邢台相距仅一百余公里。根据中疾控最新的溯源研究论文，两地最早发现的两名病例，可能感染自同一源头，且病毒很可能来源于俄罗斯取样的毒株。但怎么传入、何时传入，仍不明确。"
武安市与邢台相邻，根据武安市统战部关于疫情防护的会议指示，武安市教会将暂停一切聚会活动，并做好自身防护。
河北武安市全市各教会：受疫情影响，暂停一切聚会活动！
The Wu'an Municipal CC&TSPM in China's northern Hebei Province issued a notice, requiring churches in the city to suspend all worship activities from the next morning.
The notice stated that on the afternoon of January 7, the Wu'an CC&TSPM (Christian Council & Three-Self Patriotic Movement) held an emergency meeting on China's Twitter WeChat to convey the instructions on coronavirus prevention from the municipal United Front Work Department. All the registered churches suspend activities. Believers were told to wait for further notice.
The document continued, "At present, Hebei province has entered a wartime state. The province reported 51 new confirmed local COVID-19 cases for Thursday, including 50 cases in Shijiazhuang City and one case in the city of Xingtai. The increase brought the provincial total to 90 current confirmed cases and 144 asymptomatic infections who are under medical observation, according to the Beijing News."
"Shijiazhuang and Xingtai are only about a hundred kilometers apart. According to the latest thesis on contact tracing released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the two earliest cases found in the two cities may have been exposed to the same source of infection, and the virus was likely to be from a strain originating in Russia. But It was still unclear when and how it was brought into the two cities," it explained.
As the city of Wu’an is adjacent to Xiangtai, the government commanded its churches to suspend all their public activities.
-Translated by Abigail Wu
Hebei Churches Suspend All Activities Due to New Local Infections
