[NTDTV, Beijing time, April 20, 2022]The epidemic continued to break out in Shanghai, and epidemic prevention was in chaos. Among them, the Pingwang residential area in Huangpu District began to focus on isolating uninfected people. Local residents revealed that it was because there were too many infected people in the area, and the uninfected became a minority.
On April 19, the Pingwang Street Neighborhood Committee of Nanjing East Road Sub-district, Huangpu District, central Shanghai issued a notice that the district CDC requested the Pingwang residential area, including various communities in the ring area of Zhejiang Middle Road, Fuzhou Road, Hubei Road and Guangdong Road. In the afternoon of the same day, the negative nucleic acid and antigen tests were collectively transferred to the Hangzhou quarantine hotel in batches.
The notice stated that the transferred persons will be subject to 7+7 quarantine, that is, they will be quarantined in Hangzhou for 7 days, and then return to Shanghai for 7 days of home quarantine.
The notice also emphasizes that it is the negative people who need to be transferred.
Ms. Xu, a resident of Xuhui District in Shanghai, told Radio Free Asia that the reason why the Pingwang residential area changed the isolation of positive people to isolation negative was because the test results showed that there were too many positive people in the area. On the contrary, there are very few negative people, and some communities only need two buses.
She said that many people initially thought they had heard it wrong when the government suddenly notified the transfer and quarantine was negative.
Shanghai’s anti-epidemic policies have been changed day and night, creating chaos. This situation has been accused of being related to infighting and official infighting in the CCP.
Zhang Qing, a Chinese scholar of literature and history, told Free Asia that there has been a “troika” from the central to the local level in Shanghai’s epidemic prevention recently. Each sings a different tune. The districts and counties in Shanghai also act on their own. The “clearing faction” and the “coexistence faction” are also incompatible.
Reuters quoted internal information and internal speeches of Shanghai officials on April 17, revealing that the State Council of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai authorities issued a death order on April 20 to “clear the society” in Shanghai, requiring officials at all levels to “not bargain” and must “Fully done”.
However, officials from the Shanghai Health and Health Commission subsequently announced a plan to screen all staff for four consecutive days from the 18th to the 21st. As of April 20, only a few administrative districts have announced “complete social clearance”. This seems to show that the officials in Shanghai did not implement the orders of their superiors “outright”.
Moreover, at the critical moment of the “social clearing”, it was reported that Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, was hospitalized with “vascular headache” on April 19. According to public information, Wu Jinglei has not attended the epidemic prevention press conference since April 17.
Since the closure of the city in Shanghai, some local officials have “laid down”. There have been reports of strikes or resignations from grass-roots residents’ committees. The online recording also shows that a female official of the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yelled at the authorities for epidemic prevention policies during a call with citizens.
The CCP forced “political clearing” in Shanghai to create a humanitarian disaster, which caused public grievances to boil over. Online video (Link) shows that Shanghai residents are starving, have nowhere to seek medical treatment, and have nowhere to vent their anger. Whenever they encounter an “inspection”, local officials will yell at them.
Many Shanghainese hope to be caught in a makeshift hospital in order to eat enough. However, the messy environment and the lack of medical treatment and medicine at the isolation point of the square cabin are also unbearable for many people. Online video (Link) shows that a quarantined woman climbed onto the iron frame of a makeshift hospital converted from a factory workshop and tried to jump off the building. No official staff went up to inquire about her demands. Instead, they tried their best to prevent other quarantined people from filming the scene.
(Comprehensive report by reporter Zheng Gusheng/responsible editor: Lin Qing)
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