Shanghai/Beijing: Many big cities including Chinese Shanghai are on their toes in the face of new outbreaks of COVID-19 infections, repeatedly conducting mass testing or extending lockdowns on millions of residents, with some measures sparking public outcry.
According to Reuters calculations based on official figures as of Monday, China has reported an average of about 390 local daily infections in the seven days ending Sunday, up from about 340 seven days ago. This is much smaller than the resurgence in other parts of Asia.
Still, any flare-up would upset local authorities, with China enforcing its dynamic zero-COVID policy as soon as they emerge and punishing officials if they fail to do so. Huh.
Commercial hub Shanghai, which has not yet fully recovered from a harsh two-month lockdown in the spring and is still reporting sporadic cases daily, said on Monday that it was expanding in many of its 16 districts and some smaller areas. planning to conduct large scale trials. The infection was reported recently after a similar test last week.
“There is still a risk of an epidemic at the community level,” the city government said in a statement.
Shanghai reported more than a dozen new cases, but none were found outside the quarantine zones, local government data showed on Monday.
“I’m speechless,” said a Shanghai resident nicknamed wang, is already under trial in his residential premises every weekend. “It seems like a waste of resources that doesn’t solve the real problem.”
The northern city of Tianjin, which launched several rounds of large-scale testing in recent months to curb earlier outbreaks, said on Monday that after two local infections were found, it was again reaching its 12 million mark. testing more residents.
In the central Chinese city of Zhumadian, a lockdown for more than a million people in two cities under its jurisdiction has been extended for a few days until Tuesday. The temporary lockdown in four other cities for more than 3 million has been extended until Monday. zumadian Dozens of cases continue to be registered daily despite restrictions last week.
The capital Beijing, which reported zero local infections during July 11-17, closed a residential complex on Monday as authorities investigated two suspected infections.
‘No humanity’
Officials in Guangxi’s southern region said late Sunday that they fired two officials in Beihai city from their jobs for acting poorly in their COVID response.
With a population of 1.9 million and currently more than 500 infections, the city of Beihai has launched several rounds of mass testing and locked down some areas.
As of Sunday, more than 2,000 tourists were stuck in the city.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, COVID control workers broke the locks of apartment doors without residents’ consent, sparking an uproar on social media over the weekend.
Officials in a district of Guangzhou apologized to residents on Monday.
This issue was included in the list of top 10 trending topics on social media like Twitter of China. Weibo,
One Weibo user wrote, “This is so awful, so ridiculous.” “No humanity, no law.”
According to Reuters calculations based on official figures as of Monday, China has reported an average of about 390 local daily infections in the seven days ending Sunday, up from about 340 seven days ago. This is much smaller than the resurgence in other parts of Asia.
Still, any flare-up would upset local authorities, with China enforcing its dynamic zero-COVID policy as soon as they emerge and punishing officials if they fail to do so. Huh.
Commercial hub Shanghai, which has not yet fully recovered from a harsh two-month lockdown in the spring and is still reporting sporadic cases daily, said on Monday that it was expanding in many of its 16 districts and some smaller areas. planning to conduct large scale trials. The infection was reported recently after a similar test last week.
“There is still a risk of an epidemic at the community level,” the city government said in a statement.
Shanghai reported more than a dozen new cases, but none were found outside the quarantine zones, local government data showed on Monday.
“I’m speechless,” said a Shanghai resident nicknamed wang, is already under trial in his residential premises every weekend. “It seems like a waste of resources that doesn’t solve the real problem.”
The northern city of Tianjin, which launched several rounds of large-scale testing in recent months to curb earlier outbreaks, said on Monday that after two local infections were found, it was again reaching its 12 million mark. testing more residents.
In the central Chinese city of Zhumadian, a lockdown for more than a million people in two cities under its jurisdiction has been extended for a few days until Tuesday. The temporary lockdown in four other cities for more than 3 million has been extended until Monday. zumadian Dozens of cases continue to be registered daily despite restrictions last week.
The capital Beijing, which reported zero local infections during July 11-17, closed a residential complex on Monday as authorities investigated two suspected infections.
‘No humanity’
Officials in Guangxi’s southern region said late Sunday that they fired two officials in Beihai city from their jobs for acting poorly in their COVID response.
With a population of 1.9 million and currently more than 500 infections, the city of Beihai has launched several rounds of mass testing and locked down some areas.
As of Sunday, more than 2,000 tourists were stuck in the city.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, COVID control workers broke the locks of apartment doors without residents’ consent, sparking an uproar on social media over the weekend.
Officials in a district of Guangzhou apologized to residents on Monday.
This issue was included in the list of top 10 trending topics on social media like Twitter of China. Weibo,
One Weibo user wrote, “This is so awful, so ridiculous.” “No humanity, no law.”