The abrupt closure of all shops and mandatory confinement caused angry resident complaints about lack of access to food and medicine. On the other hand, the positives in coronavirus have to isolate themselves in huge complexes criticized by crowded and unhealthy.
The United States, meanwhile, announced that all non-essential staff will be evacuated from their Shanghai consulate due to harsh restrictions. While the Chinese Foreign Ministry defended his management of the regrowththe highest peak of cases faced by China, the cradle of the pandemic, and accused Washington of politicize their evacuation.
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Shanghai’s lockdown began on March 28 and should last until April 5but last week it was prolonged indefinitely in the midst of Record daily numbers of infections in China. Most of them corresponding to the eastern city, the largest and the economic capital of the country.
The number of daily cases in China is boy compared to other countriesbut the government of the president Xi Jinping apply a policy of zero tolerance which consists of closing entire cities and isolating each infected person, and also dismissed local authorities for not having acted sufficiently aggressive.
China’s National Health Commission reported 24,659 cases in the past 24 hours, of which Shanghai contributed 23,346reported the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The vast majority of cases are asymptomatic and correspond to the Omicron variant.
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Shanghai reported more than 200,000 cases but no death in the current outbreak. The local municipal government announced that residents of areas that they had no cases at least in the last two weeks they could leave their homes from this Tuesday, according to The Paper.
The website, citing city officials, said those people they will be able to go to any part of the city that has also not had any cases of coronavirus in the same period of timealthough they have the recommendation to stay at home whenever possible.
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Nail 4.8 million people live in these “prevention zones”assured the online medium. While others 1.8 million people of “control zones”who had no cases in the last week, can also leave their homes but have to stay within your neighborhood.
Others 15 million people living in “quarantine zones” and reported infections in the last week have to follow confined in their houses. Finally, the newspaper did not clarify the situation of the 3.4 million remaining residents.
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Last week, the US State Department advised the citizens of the country Do not travel to China due to the application of “arbitrary” measures against the coronavirus, before announcing the evacuation on Tuesday. In contrast, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized the announcement and said that the measures that China takes against the coronavirus are “scientific and effective”.
“The United States should immediately stop attacking China’s pandemic prevention policy, stop political manipulation with the epidemic issue, and stop dirtying and discrediting China.“said the spokesman Zhao Lijiang.
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