However, authorities warned those residents should only be going out if necessary, get tested twice a week, and that lockdown would be re-imposed if any new cases were detected in the neighborhood. On Monday, Shanghai officials began easing measures in neighborhoods that had not reported any positive cases in 14 days.
Residents have been discouraged from leaving the city, and are required to present a negative PCR test if they want to leave. Meanwhile, the southern city of Guangzhou has reported dozens of cases since early April as well, prompting several rounds of mass testing and the closure of schools. Some nearby cities were put under lockdown, including Haining in Zhejiang, and Kunshan in Jiangsu province. In the past week, Shanghai’s outbreak has spilled over to nearby cities including Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. Since the start of pandemic, China has tightened rules around selling and buying fever medication, requiring a prescription and a negative Covid test.ĬNN has geolocated the residential compound in the video to be in Shanghai, but could not independently verify the video and has not identified the mother involved. Is anyone home? Excuse me, sorry to bother you! Everyone! Is anyone awake?” the mother can be heard crying in the video. “Do you have medicine for fever? My child has fever. Social media posts show rising desperation as well, with one recent video showing a mother begging for medication for her child from neighbors at midnight in Shanghai. Pressure builds as Shanghai, a city of 25 million, remains locked inside Medics in hazmat suits prepare for another morning of testing at an apartment compound in Shanghai. He added that the outbreak had since spread to many provinces, and that the number of new infections is expected to remain high in the coming days. Zhao’s assertion stands in stark contrast to more somber messages from other Chinese officials, including the NHC deputy director Lei Zhenglong, who on Tuesday warned Shanghai’s outbreak has “not been effectively contained.” So far, more than 320,000 cases have been reported across 31 provinces – including those in Shanghai – since March 1. The financial hub reported more than 26,000 new locally transmitted cases on Monday, the sixth consecutive day over 20,000, according to China’s National Health Commission (NHC). Zhao also defended China’s Covid prevention and control policies as “scientific and effective,” insisting the government had “every confidence in bringing the new wave of Covid-19 under control” despite rising case numbers. “We express strong dissatisfaction with the politicization and weaponization of evacuations by the US,” Zhao said, adding that the US was “smearing China.” Shanghai's chaotic Covid lockdown puts other Chinese cities on edgeĬhina’s Foreign Ministry has notified the US it “firmly opposes” the consulate order, ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in a news briefing on Tuesday. China OUT (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) Stringer/AFP/Getty Images A staff member walks inside a makeshift hospital that will be used for Covid-19 patients in Shanghai on April 7, 2022.
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