alarm on China. Beijing authorities began testing millions of residents and closed commercial and business districts this Monday, April 25, following registering high numbers in cases of infected and deceased by coronavirus.
Neighbors stayed home and stockpiled food as a precaution once morest being confined to their homes, as has happened in several cities, one of them being the financial hub of Shanghai. This caused long lines in supermarkets and stores to buy meat, noodles, vegetables or basic items such as toilet paper.
Shanghai reported more than 19,000 new infections and 51 deaths in the previous 24 hours. Despite the fact that only 70 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Beijingofficials have taken extreme measures to prevent the virus from spreading.
“Seeing so many people buying has made me nervous and I hope everything goes well,” said a citizen, as he walked away with his bags full of supplies.
Supermarkets must supply more than 11 million residents who are completely isolated. They sometimes serve more than 1,000 orders a day, which has forced workers to even live on the job.
Censorship of Shanghai lockdown video infuriates netizens
A viral video showing the repercussions of the Shanghai’s lockdown of its inhabitants was erased from the internet Chinese by censors, sparking misunderstanding and even anger from Internet users on Saturday.
Entitled “Siyue Zhi sheng” (“The Voices of April”), the six-minute video is a sequence of Shanghai shot from the air.
The author added to these black and white images, in chronological order, a succession of sounds taken from press conferences, videos posted on social networks and phone calls from the inhabitants.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
