The Nanjing outbreak of the pandemic is still growing and local officials are under a lot of pressure for poor epidemic prevention. The authorities have traced cases to tourists in Zhangjiajie, Hunan.  China's tourism industry is apprehensive that with the entrance of the delta variant there may be a lot less domestic travel than expected now through the October 1 National Day holiday, especially with the 6th Plenum coming up, probably in October/November. The Global Times reported that other cities in Jiangsu are reinforcing anti-pandemic measures. Suzhou has set up 18 highway checkpoints to check the health status of drivers coming from Nanjing. Suzhou has also suspended all passenger road transportation, including buses and taxis, with Nanjing. Chinese media has reported that the seven cases recently detected in Dalian, Liaoning and Chengdu, all had recently attended the same show in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, on July 22. Among the seven cases, the three discovered in Dalian had transferred at the Lukou Airport on July 17. Three individuals who were in close contact with a covid case in Nanjing are said to have travelled from Shandong to Inner Mongolia, and they took subway in Beijing on July 24 as they tried to catch a different train. The Report said more than 2000 people were in the audience in the July 22 Zhangjiajie show and they sat close to each other, and it is unclear if they were wearing masks. It appears the 2000 people – now all labeled as “high risk” -- have already left Zhangjiajie and are now scattered across the country. Wang Hesheng, Director of the newly established National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, and Lei Haichao, a Deputy Director of the National Health Commission went to Jiangsu to supervise the Covid control. The meeting, which was chaired by the Jiangsu Party Secretary, to discuss new measures admitted that the situation is severe. The Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) wrote a commentary criticising the Nanjing airport for negligence that led to the outbreak.  It asked, “If the Nanjing Lukou airport were able to implement the measures [instructed by the state council] timely and meticulously, how come it would fail in this defence against covid?” Quoting an anonymous insider, the Global Times (July 28) said that Nanjing Lukou International Airport will suspend all air flights till August 11. it also said the airport began to cut the number of flights in and out of the airport from July 26, including flights in and out of Nanjing. Also, international flights will be cancelled till August 11. The People’s Daily’s Health Times said the Nanjing airport and its cleaning contractor were so sloppy that they didn’t try to separate those cleaners who clean flights from abroad, and those who clean the domestic flights. The cleaners first contracted the virus, and then passed it on to their colleagues and families. A businessman who worked with the airport told Health Times that it is a “stupid mistake”. Xinhua News Agency commented on the Nanjing epidemic situation: Why do cases keep increasing? How high is the risk of proliferation?