Shanghai government announce China’s Xinhua news agency reported an abrupt closure on Tuesday in 9 of its 16 residential areas to allow officials to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus, adding that movement restrictions will continue through Thursday.
All residents in the following areas have been confined to their homes from July 5: Huangpu, Zhuhui, Changning, Jing’an, Putuo, Hongkou, Yangpu, Minhang and Baoshan. According to Xinhua, an unspecified number of residents in the Shanghai districts of Pudong New District, Jiading and Fengxian were additionally ordered to comply with stay-at-home orders on July 5. Movement restrictions were set to last until July 7 while health workers in the city screen residents for the Chinese coronavirus.
“During testing, people living in affected areas will be required to show a test that has been done within the past two days to leave their homes,” the Shanghai municipal government Wrote In a message posted by her official WeChat account on social media, as reported by Reuters.
“No family or person should be missed,” the Shanghai government said on Tuesday of its comprehensive testing scheme.
Shanghai health officials ordered a 72-hour closure after they claimed a new cluster infection of the Chinese coronavirus was discovered this week linked to a karaoke bar. Recently, the lounge has been frequented by residents from many parts of Shanghai.
Police and officials in protective clothing work in an area where roadblocks are set up around a closed neighborhood after new cases of Covid-19 were discovered in Shanghai on March 15, 2022 (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
“Testing efforts are aimed at detecting and controlling the spread of the virus as quickly as possible,” the city’s epidemiological control group said July 5.
The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission reported eight new locally transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases on July 4, “seven of which said they were found in quarantine areas,” according to Reuters and Xinhua.
The Shanghai government recently claimed to have ended an earlier decree to lock down the Chinese coronavirus that affected all of its population of more than 25 million for 65 consecutive days. The stay-at-home order has officially continued since March 28 Until June 1, although reports indicated that the lockdown had not been fully lifted in some areas.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that Shanghai continued to impose restrictions on the movement of its residents throughout June, and many of those restrictions are set to remain in place until the end of July.
The city is already requiring all of its districts to organize mass testing of residents every weekend until the end of July. Residents also have to test themselves every three days to enter public areas such as shopping centers or use public transportation.”
Shanghai did not say what it plans to do with residents who have tested positive in 12 provinces ordered to undergo a Chinese coronavirus test this week, though it indicated on Sunday that it could force them into city-run quarantine sites.
As of 4pm on Sunday [July 3]99 close contacts and 35 close contacts have been identified for quarantine,” Xinhua said. mentionedreferring to close contacts of patients associated with infection of the city’s karaoke bar group.
The previous Chinese coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai hurt not only its economy, but also the economy of China and the world. Shanghai is considered the financial city of China, which ranks itself as the second largest economy globally. The capital boasts the world’s busiest shipping container port and dozens of factories owned by the world’s largest multinational companies, including electronics giant Apple and electric car maker. Tesla.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus convicted China’s strict coronavirus lockdowns on May 10 as “unsustainable” on May 10. In response, the Chinese government’s internet censorship has banned the country’s highly organized internet users from sharing WHO comments, and has reportedly censored Tedros’ photos.