Shanghai lockdown deepens after new surge in asymptomatic COVID cases
The lockdown now covers the entire city after restrictions in the city's western districts were extended until further notice, in what has become a major test for China's zero-tolerance strategy to eliminate the novel coronavirus.
"I do not think this is a good idea as more that 24 months into the pandemic we know so much more," said Jaya Dantas, professor of international health at Curtin University in Australia, adding that China's "resource intensive" strategies to combat COVID-19 needed to be revised.
Jane Polubotko, a Ukrainian marketing manager now held in the city's biggest quarantine centre, told Reuters it was unclear when they would be released.In an interview with Communist Party newspaper People's Daily on Saturday, Chen Erzhen, a doctor in charge of one Shanghai quarantine facility, said it was possible that China would revise guidelines and allow asymptomatic patients to stay home, especially if the number of cases continued to mount.
Shanghai reported a record 13,086 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on April 4, authorities said on their WeChat channel, up from 8,581 the previous day, after a city-wide testing programme swabbed more than 25 million people in 24 hours.
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