[NTD, Beijing time, June 11, 2022]Shanghai has just lifted the lockdown, and multiple districts have notified that nucleic acid screening will be conducted on the 11th. At least two districts will be closed and controlled simultaneously, which seems to be repeating the drama before the last city closure. Panic citizens began to frantically grab shopping supplies, and some people rushed out of Shanghai.
As of June 10, among the 16 municipal districts in Shanghai, at least 10 districts, including Pudong New District, Jiading District, Changning District, Hongkou District, Yangpu District, Jing’an District, Xuhui District, Minhang District, Jinshan District, and Songjiang District, have It was notified that nucleic acid testing across the region will be launched on Saturday (11th). Some districts only notified all staff to take inspections on the morning of the 11th. Some districts said that the 11th and 12th were collected for two consecutive days. Among them, the notices of at least two districts of Minhang and Changning clearly announced that “closed management” will be adopted simultaneously during the nucleic acid testing of all employees.
There is also a notice from the neighborhood committee that “according to the unified arrangement of the city and the district”, nucleic acid testing of all employees will be carried out on the 11th, 12th and 13th for three consecutive days, and the sampling period will be “closed management”.
Although the official notice stated that “the closure will be lifted when the sampling is over”, many citizens no longer believe the official statement, worrying that the nightmare of March will repeat, so they began to frantically grab shopping funds.
In March of this year, Shanghai officials vowed that “the city will never be locked down.” Subsequently, multiple communities began nucleic acid screening for all staff and were simultaneously closed. However, the residents did not wait to lift the lockdown, but continued round after round of nucleic acid screening and continued closure, and finally the full city closure in April.
Videos and pictures released on June 10 showed panic buying in many supermarkets in Shanghai. The mall was full of people, and many shelves for vegetables and food were empty. There are many citizens who each shoulder half a fan of pork.
On June 11, more than half of Shanghai underwent simultaneous nucleic acid screening, and some areas were closed at the same time. This scene seems familiar.
On June 10, terrified Shanghai residents began to frantically hoard supplies. pic.twitter.com/XxbCgzIHQa— Insight into the world (@yunyunfengfeng) June 10, 2022
There is also a video (Link) shows that many citizens could not get supplies in shopping malls and supermarkets, and flocked to the truck stalls on the roadside to buy directly from the trucks. Some netizens couldn’t buy them offline, and they turned to the group buying and mutual aid groups during the closure of the city.
On the evening of the 10th, various news about the date of the closure of the city on the local network were flying all over the sky. There are videos (Link) showed that many citizens packed up overnight and fled Shanghai by car. Those who could not escape also began to look for a place to settle down.
A company employee revealed on the Internet that he had brought his computer home and was ready to go home to work. There was a rumor within the company that it was “closed again” and “very reliable.”
There was also a video posted on the Internet that night (Link) shows that many areas in Shanghai acted in the middle of the night and began to close roads and communities, creating a terrifying atmosphere.
(Comprehensive report by reporter Jing Zhongming/responsible editor: Xu Gengwen)
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