Shanghai Covid City To Lockdown Each Half For Mass Testing

Everyone should be involved in Covid-19 testing across the city to maintain a “green” health code status that would allow them to access grocery stores and public spaces. During the respective lockdown, people will be barred from going out and all non-essential workers must work from home. Public transportation, including buses, subways, ferries and taxis in locked areas will also be suspended. Shanghai recorded 2,678 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday alone, accounting for almost half of all new cases reported in China that day, according to the country’s National Health Commission. China’s inability to contain its latest epidemic so far has sparked outrage on the internet from frustrated citizens as questions about Beijing’s zero-Covid strategy enter the mainstream for the first time. In Shanghai – a city with some of the best infrastructure in the country – social media complaints indicate that systems designed to ensure residents have what they need fail as lockdowns are extended without warning. “How can I buy groceries? … I can not get medicine for my children … how can we order it online when we can not even make an appointment at the hospital?” wrote a social media user, who said that their neighborhood in Shanghai was closed for 15 days. Officials said they were making “every effort” to secure supplies by supporting residents to use online platforms to get what they needed or to arrange mass purchases and distribution. To address the growing number of cases across the city, the Shanghai government has been distributing rapid antigen screening kits to households in low-risk areas, testing more than 14 million people as of Sunday. In an effort to relieve pressure on hospitals. Many indoor stadiums and exhibition centers in the city have been converted into central quarantine facilities for patients with Covid-19 who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Despite blocking more homes following the Covid-19 outbreak, Shanghai was reluctant to implement a nationwide lockdown ahead of Sunday’s announcement. “If Shanghai stopped completely, there would be many international cargo ships floating in the East China Sea,” said Wu Fan, a doctor on the city’s pandemic task force on Saturday. China is still reluctant to impose a full, lockdown on the entire city despite an increase in the number of cases – the highest since the pandemic began.

title: “Shanghai Covid City To Lockdown Each Half For Mass Testing " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-11” author: “Gina Brown”

Everyone should be involved in Covid-19 testing across the city to maintain a “green” health code status that would allow them to access grocery stores and public spaces. During the respective lockdown, people will be barred from going out and all non-essential workers must work from home. Public transportation, including buses, subways, ferries and taxis in locked areas will also be suspended. Shanghai recorded 2,678 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday alone, accounting for almost half of all new cases reported in China that day, according to the country’s National Health Commission. China’s inability to contain its latest epidemic so far has sparked outrage on the internet from frustrated citizens as questions about Beijing’s zero-Covid strategy enter the mainstream for the first time. In Shanghai – a city with some of the best infrastructure in the country – social media complaints indicate that systems designed to ensure residents have what they need fail as lockdowns are extended without warning. “How can I buy groceries? … I can not get medicine for my children … how can we order it online when we can not even make an appointment at the hospital?” wrote a social media user, who said that their neighborhood in Shanghai was closed for 15 days. Officials said they were making “every effort” to secure supplies by supporting residents to use online platforms to get what they needed or to arrange mass purchases and distribution. To address the growing number of cases across the city, the Shanghai government has been distributing rapid antigen screening kits to households in low-risk areas, testing more than 14 million people as of Sunday. In an effort to relieve pressure on hospitals. Many indoor stadiums and exhibition centers in the city have been converted into central quarantine facilities for patients with Covid-19 who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Despite blocking more homes following the Covid-19 outbreak, Shanghai was reluctant to implement a nationwide lockdown ahead of Sunday’s announcement. “If Shanghai stopped completely, there would be many international cargo ships floating in the East China Sea,” said Wu Fan, a doctor on the city’s pandemic task force on Saturday. China is still reluctant to impose a full, lockdown on the entire city despite an increase in the number of cases – the highest since the pandemic began.