Chinese officials hail their hardline “zero-COVID” policy for stemming the growth of cases and deaths from the virus, despite the enormous cost to the Chinese economy and international supply chains reliant on China's manufacturing and shipping abilities that have been thrown askew.
A Chinese government official had said that 61 cases were uncovered in Beijing on Friday, and all the patients were linked to 'Heaven Supermarket Bar' - they had either visited the bar themselves or had met with someone who had visited the bar.
Shanghai Lockdown News: Mass Covid testing will be done in the Minhang district following which the restrictions will be relaxed. Minhang is home to 2.7 million people.
The lockdown set back the national economy and largely confined millions to their homes, while its ruthless and often chaotic enforcement prompted protests in person and online that are seldom seen under China’s strict authoritarian govt.
Shanghai authorities say they will take some major steps Wednesday toward reopening China's largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has throttled the national economy and largely bottled up millions of people in their homes.
A major focus of the discussions was to be on the situation in Afghanistan, especially in dealing with the threat from terrorist groups active in the Taliban-ruled country, people familiar with the meeting said.
Agriculture markets will also be allowed to reopen while ensuring “no contact” transactions. Restaurants will be allowed to serve takeout.
Videos shared on China's social media platforms showed suspected Covid-positive patients forcibly quarantined in central facilities.
The tightened measures in the city could be extended depending on the results of mass testing, the official notice stated.
As the COVID restrictions lifted, Quanta Computer's plant in Shanghai gradually started with the production of the MacBook Pro.
The incident, which took place on Sunday afternoon, was filmed by onlookers and the footage quickly spread online, sparking a furious backlash in the city which has been under a gruelling lockdown for five weeks.
Covid cases are still rising in China as the ruling Communist bureaucracy attempts to stick to its zero covid policy designed to eliminate the virus.
Shanghai, a vast city of 26 million people, has reported 2,472 positive cases and 16,983 asymptomatic cases. On Sunday, the city’s COVID-19 death toll crossed 100 in the current outbreak. The city reported 51 deaths on Sunday, the highest in a single day, taking the toll to 138.
China on Apr 21 reported 2,119 locally transmitted confirmed COVID cases, of which 1,931 were reported in Shanghai, according to National Health Commission.
Analysts are ringing warning bells, but say investors aren't properly assessing how serious the global economic fallout might be from these prolonged isolation orders.
China has always been notorious about revealing the actual data of new Covid cases, deaths to the world. Most of the people in China have been given the 'Made in China' vaccine like Sinopharm but this hasn't been that effective compared to other vaccines.
The fresh round of testing comes as the city reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic.
China on Monday reported more than 13,000 new cases nationwide in the previous 24 hours, of which nearly 12,000 were asymptomatic. About 9,000 of the cases were in Shanghai.
Shanghai with its 26 million people last week began a two-stage lockdown, with residents of the eastern Pudong section supposed to be allowed to leave their homes Friday, while their neighbours in the western Puxi section underwent their own four-day isolation period.
With China’s economic growth already slowing, the extreme measures are seen as worsening difficulties striking employment, consumption and even global supply chains.
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