Shanghai has set a goal to stop broadcasting Covid-19 by Wednesday outside the areas set in quarantinesaid two people who know the subject, something that will allow China’s largest city to relax them further lockdown restrictions and begin to return to normal.
The goal requires officials to speed up diagnostic tests and transfer of cases to quarantine centersaccording to a speech by a local Communist Party official yesterday, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
Shanghai has been the focus of the largest outbreak in China since the virus was first identified in late 2019 in Wuhan and has recorded more than 320,000 Covid infections since the resurgence began in early March.
Residents of Shanghailocated in Lockdown, have difficulty finding food and have lost incomewhile protesting against the separation of families and the poor conditions prevailing in quarantine centers. Closed factories and traffic jams in transport in many parts of China due to restrictions on Covid-19 have an impact on global supply chains.
Shanghai’s new target for “zero Covid cases at community level“Until April 20, it was announced in the last days to the Communist Party officials and organizations such as schools, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because the information has not been disclosed.
The Chinese definition of Covid Zero Cases at the community level means that no new cases occur outside quarantined areas.
A speech by the party secretary in Shanghai’s Baoshan district yesterday described the new target as order that came because the situation in the city reached a “critical point”with growing concern and pressures on food supplies.
«The Working Group of the State Council, the party’s municipal committee and the municipal government called for the turning point in the epidemic to be the 17th and the level of zero Covid cases to be reached on the 20th (April)“, Said Chen Jie in his speech.
«This is a military order, there is no room for negotiation, we can only grit our teeth and fight for victory. It can also be said that this is a total attack, a last battle to reverse the trend of the epidemicHe added in his speech.
The Shanghai Government and the State Council of China did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Telephone communication with the Baosan regional government was not possible outside of business hours today.
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