Shanghai – China – Archyde.com
Shanghai recorded nearly 25,000 local infections with the coronavirus on Sunday, as residents complained of a lack of food and basic supplies and concerns grew that more cities may be in the same situation soon.
The streets were left empty in the closed financial center of 26 million people with restrictions allowing outside only for health care workers, volunteers, delivery service workers and those with special permission.
Shanghai’s case numbers are small compared to some cities globally, but it is battling the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in China since the virus emerged in the central city of Wuhan in 2019.
The city has become a testing center for China’s virus eradication strategy, which aims to test, track and quarantine all those infected with the Coronavirus to stop the spread of the virus.
The restrictions have led to severe shortages in food supplies and other necessities.
Many supermarkets have closed and access to medical care has become a concern.
Pang Xinghu, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that the Beijing municipal government put a high-risk area under lockdown Saturday following eight cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the past two weeks.
Guangzhou, a large city in southern China with a population of more than 18 million people, said Saturday that it will start testing in 11 regions following cases were recorded on Friday.
And the National Health Committee of China announced the registration of 1,351 confirmed new infections with the Corona virus on Saturday, compared to 1,350 the previous day.
The committee said that 1,318 of the new infections were transmitted locally, compared to 1,334 the day before.
And China recorded 25,111 new asymptomatic infections, compared to 23,815 the previous day.
China did not record any new deaths, keeping the number at 4,638.