The city china of Shanghai registered on Saturday more than 23,000 new cases of coronavirusa record in the city that has its 26 million inhabitants confined as part of the strategy “zero covid” for which new massive tests are being prepared.
The 23,624 reported cases coincide with the start of the eighth round of tests throughout the city that became the new epicenter of the worst outbreak of the virus in the Asian giant since the outbreak of the pandemic, the news agency reported. Europa Press.
According to the results, The city might relax the measures under which its inhabitants now live to move to a three-tier classification (confinement, control and precaution), the latter two with greater freedom of movement.
Shanghai is facing a very serious situation as the variant Omicron unleashed a maximum peak of infections detected in a short period of time, although the team of specialists led by epidemiologist Wu Zunyou are confident that they will be able to control the outbreak in the next two weeks, according to the local newspaper Global Times.
The United States described the anticovid measures in China as “arbitrary” and reported that it will allow part of its staff to leave the consulate in Shanghai due to the situation that has the city under confinement.
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Until March, China managed to contain cases with targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but the situation in Shanghai puts Beijing’s strict “zero Covid” policy to the test.
The city, economic capital of the country, is under a phased confinement, which generated complaints of lack of food and viral videos of its inhabitants questioning the authorityaccording to the news agency AFP.
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The State Department in Washington announced that it will allow the departure of its consulate in Shanghai of its non-essential personnel “due to an outbreak of cases of Covid-19 and the impact of the restrictions,” an embassy spokesman said in a statement.
The text warns its citizens to reconsider traveling to China “due to the application of arbitrary local laws and restrictions related to Covid-19.”
