Shanghai has further tightened its already strict lockdown, which has been ongoing for nearly a month.
Chinese authorities further tightened the Covid restrictions and warned the massive city’s 25 million residents that strict measures would continue until Covid was eradicated, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Three weeks of an intense lockdown have already been seen in Shanghai. The lockdown has fueled mass discontent in China’s largest city. Some districts were told restrictions would be tightened even when they met the criteria to be allowed out of their homes.
The government said the goal is zero Covid.
The Shanghai municipal government said on its official WeChat account that Covid infections were showing a “positive trend”, and said that life could potentially return to normal soon as long as people stuck to strict rules to stop the disease from spreading.
Shanghai has been experiencing its worst surge in Covid. But the strict sweeping lockdown has constructed residents movements, and furthermore, has created loss in incomes, family separations, shortages of food, and shortages of other basic needs.
The latest lockdown comes after a new round of “nine major” actions was issued. It includes daily city-wide testing beginning today, minimizing people’s movement and accelerating transfers of residents to quarantine centres.
But many residents are not happy. They said orders were being issued in a sweeping manner that is indiscriminate, and only for the sake of speed and efficiency, with little consideration for individual circumstance and wellbeing.
There also remain international and growing doubts over the official death toll in China, during this Shanghai lockdown and overall in the country since Covid began. Many residents have said that a family member had died after catching Covid since early March, but cases had not been included in official statistics. And overall, the same disconnect is appearing.
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