Shanghai announces new mass tests after new record of Covid-19 cases

Shanghai announces new mass tests after new record of Covid-19 cases

According to the results, the city could relax the measures under which its inhabitants now live to move to a three-level classification (confinement, control and precaution), the latter two with greater freedom of movement.

Shanghai is facing a very serious situation as the Omicron variant unleashed a maximum spike in detected infections in a short period of time, although the team of specialists led by epidemiologist Wu Zunyou are confident that they will be able to control the outbreak in the next two weeks, he said. to the local newspaper Global Times.

The United States today described the anticovid measures in China as “arbitrary” and reported that it will allow part of its staff to leave the consulate in Shanghai due to the situation that has the city under confinement.

Till March, China managed to contain the cases with targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but the situation in Shanghai tests the strict “zero Covid” policy advocated by Beijing.

The city, economic capital of the country, is under a phased confinement, which generated complaints of lack of food and viral videos of its inhabitants questioning the authority, according to the AFP news agency.

The State Department in Washington announced today that it will allow the departure of its consulate in Shanghai of its non-essential personnel “due to an outbreak of Covid-19 cases and the impact of restrictions,” a spokesman said in a statement. from the embassy.

The text warns its citizens to reconsider traveling to China “due to the application of arbitrary local laws and restrictions related to Covid-19.”

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