China sent to Shanghai more than 10 thousand health workers from all over the countryincluding 2,000 military personnel, in an effort to stem an outbreak of COVID-19 rapidly spreading across China’s largest city.
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Second week of quarantine begins in Shanghai
The city held a round of massive tests to its 25 million inhabitantswhile the second week of a quarantine planned in principle as two phases began.
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The contagious BA.2 omicron subvariant of the virus is testing China’s ability to maintain its zero-COVID strategy, which aims to prevent outbreaks from spreading by isolating everyone who tests positive, whether they have symptoms or not.
Shanghai has turned an exhibition center and other venues into large isolation centers where people with few or no symptoms are housed in a sea of beds separated by screens.
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China on Monday reported more than 13,000 new cases across the country detected in the previous 24 hours., of which almost 12 thousand were asymptomatic. About 9,000 of the cases were in Shanghai. The other major outbreak is in the northeastern province of Jilin, where 3,500 cases have been confirmed.
Although most shops and other businesses in Shanghai have closed, major manufacturers such as automakers General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG said their factories were still open.
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In the last 24 hours, 13,000 new cases have been reported, of which 12,000 are asymptomatic.
Businesses that remain open have introduced “closed-loop” policies that isolate workers from the outside world.
