issuing time: 18/05/2022 – 15:21
For the third day in a row, the number of new coronavirus cases in Shanghai has been cleared, the Wall Street Journal reported today that for China’s financial capital paralyzed by the epidemic, the progress means Shanghai has reached a key milestone in its goal of ending the epidemic. The Central News Agency said today that Chinese state media praised the good news of Shanghai’s resumption of business and business. The reality is that there are still residents trapped in the community, not sure when they will be allowed to step out of their homes. Some residents said, “I’m still stuck in the community.”
According to a report by Li Yawen signed by the Central News Agency today, Shanghai recently announced that the COVID-19 epidemic has been brought under control and gradually resumed normal life and production. Shanghai announced on the 16th that it will resume normal production and life in three phases. Focus on reducing new growth and preventing rebound, and continue to reduce the number of people in closed and controlled areas; prevention areas are opened in an orderly manner, with limited movement and effective control, and the city maintains a low level of social activities. The goal is to fully restore the normal production and living order in the city from June 1 to the middle and late days.
The official Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China has released photos of Shanghai residents going to the market for shopping and haircuts on the 16th. ”, “I miss Shanghai” and other words, full of good news to celebrate Shanghai’s unblocking and victory over the virus.
However, some people commented on the Internet about these messages, “Don’t believe in rumors, don’t spread rumors”, “The official designation of positive energy is not the truth of the people.” According to a resident of Minhang District, Shanghai, a reporter from the Central News Agency told the Central News Agency that the time to go out and buy is scheduled on the 21st, and a temporary pass is still required to enter and exit the community. As for which conditions can be the first to obtain permission to go out from the neighborhood committee, this part “has no clue”, and friends who live in Pudong have not been allowed to go out. Whether or not to go out must be decided by the neighborhood committee, and the public can only be notified unilaterally.
According to the notice of permission to go out provided by the resident, the content still has multiple requirements for prevention and control. Including the personnel in the prevention area, they cannot flow to the closed control area, the control area and other prevention areas. They must use the temporary pass to enter and leave the community. The current time to go out is from 8:00 am to 12:00 am on the 21st. If there are violations such as time-out or loan pass, the pass will not be issued in the next round.
According to a Wall Street Journal report today, Shanghai has cleared social distancing for three consecutive days in preparation for reopening. Shanghai on Tuesday reported 777 new local cases on Monday, compared with more than 25,000 daily new cases at the height of the outbreak in mid-April. All of the infections were found among the 910,000 quarantine workers, meaning the wider spread of the outbreak in the city of 25 million has now been interrupted. (As of press time, Shanghai has announced on Wednesday that it has achieved social zero for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.)
The report said that declaring Shanghai’s victory over the Omikron epidemic would also be a bonus for Xi, a Chinese leader who has tied his reputation to a zero-damp epidemic prevention policy, even though it is incompatible with the rest of the world‘s response to the virus The strategy is drifting away. The Chinese government stated that insisting on dynamic clearing is adhering to the supremacy of the people and life.
On Monday, Shanghai added one new death from the new crown, bringing the local death toll in the current round of the epidemic to 576. Since the outbreak first broke out in China more than two years ago, mainland China has officially recorded 5,214 deaths, fewer than the death toll in Denmark, a country of just 5.8 million.
The Wall Street Journal said that Shanghai is one of the richest cities in China, and even the public health system in Shanghai is being overwhelmed by the rapid spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, which means that officials elsewhere are afraid to adventure.