[NTDTV, Beijing time, March 24, 2022]The Shanghai epidemic is out of control, and the authorities are still trying to hide it. It was reported on the Internet that more than 8,000 confirmed cases were found in Beicai Town in Shanghai alone, and the officials immediately “refuted the rumor”. Locals confirmed the news from within the police, and broke the news that the authorities were preparing to split it up.
On the morning of March 22, local time, internal information on the Internet indicated that more than 8,000 asymptomatic infections were found in Beicai Town, Pudong District, Shanghai on the 21st. The Shanghai CDC plans to disassemble and report this number. The official Weibo account of the Shanghai Municipal Government Information Office claimed that it was “false news”.
However, a staff member of a textile company in Shanghai told The Epoch Times reporter on the 23rd that a colleague confirmed the authenticity of the above news through her husband who worked at the police station. The colleague revealed in the work group that the official is reporting in batches in the past two days, splitting more than 8,000 people, and reporting a part every day.
The staff member said that he could not send the chat records to reporters, but many people in Shanghai knew about this.
He said that the director of the Shanghai Municipal Health and Health Commission announced at the epidemic briefing on the 22nd that “8,000 cases are rumors”, and he was very nervous when he spoke. In fact, the Shanghai virus is spreading very badly. Officials dare not report more than 8,000 cases, because Shanghai is, after all, an influential city in the mainland.
The above rumors only involve Beicai Town. In fact, outbreaks have occurred in many parts of Shanghai.
Shanghai reported that 4 new local confirmed cases and 977 asymptomatic infections were added on the 22nd, a new high.
Ms. Zhu from Jing’an District, Shanghai was deeply skeptical of the official figures. She told The Epoch Times that the Omicron variant is characterized by the fact that one person is diagnosed and everyone around is infected. But the areas where the officially announced asymptomatic infected people are located are scattered, often only one in a community, which is suspicious and disturbing.
She revealed that the epidemic in Shanghai is indeed serious. The Sports Park in Minhang District and the Gymnasium in Jiading District have been converted into temporary makeshift hospitals, where asymptomatic infected persons and mildly ill patients are isolated, and the isolation conditions are a bit like “concentration camps”. There are also many hotels that have been requisitioned as quarantine points.
Ms. Li from Shanghai said that her colleague was in Jiading District, and the community had just been unblocked and an outbreak broke out, and was immediately blocked again.
Most of the infected people officially reported in Shanghai are asymptomatic infected people. But RFA’s interview reports suggest that may not be the case in reality.
Shanghai resident Ms. Feng told Radio Free Asia on the 22nd that Shanghai’s medical resources are close to collapse, and general outpatient clinics in most areas have been closed, and the hospital only treats severely infected patients, and mild cases cannot be admitted to the hospital at all. An 80-year-old man with high fever and complications went everywhere for help, but no hospital received him.
The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that at present, hospitals in various places cannot accommodate so many infected patients, so they have to choose severe patients for hospital treatment, and most of the mild patients are isolated at home. The source also said that local officials have stopped reporting the number of infected people for fear of losing their jobs. Therefore, the number of infected people may be increasing.
The report also said that some general hospitals in Shanghai were temporarily converted into designated hospitals for receiving infected patients.
According to The Epoch Times, Zhoupu Hospital has been emptied and converted into an isolation makeshift hospital. Nurses at the hospital started to strike in protest.
(Comprehensive report by reporter Zheng Gusheng/responsible editor: Lin Qing)
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