193 MILLION People Affected By COVID Lockdown in 23 Cities!

Source: OT-Team(S,J), BBC, Global Times, Metro, Hindustan Times

Some 23 Chinese cities are under total or partial Covid-19 lockdown, affecting an estimated 193 million people, the Nomura brokerage said in a note on Tuesday, quoted by the source.

As the case is constantly growing, the below information is in regards to the full city lockdown in Shanghai.

In Shanghai, tens of thousands of medics have been deployed, state media reports said.

A Xinhua report said 50,000 workers had fanned out across the city to collect swab samples for nucleic acid testing, which was completed by early Tuesday.

Shanghai’s two-phased lockdown, supposed to end on Tuesday, is set to continue following a record surge in Covid-19 cases in which the city logged 13,354 new infections, including 268 symptomatic ones for Monday, the sharpest increase since the start of the pandemic.

The whole of Shanghai with nearly 25 million residents will likely be kept under indefinite restrictions (until further notice) with authorities doing away with separate measures for the eastern and western sides of the city as was initially planned.

Shanghai is now the largest city to be locked down to date since early 2020.

Health authorities are rushing to make new arrangements to treat more patients in the coming days.

In addition to the approximately 47,700 beds in designated and improvised hospitals reserved for Covid-19 patients, arrangements were being made for 30,000 additional beds.

Patients are being tested at temporary locations, such as hotels, stadiums, and conference halls.

“The number of cases exceeded 10,000 for the first time (in Shanghai), bringing the total to 13,354. In this wave of epidemics since March, more than 73,000 positive infections have been reported,” Gu said.

“Over 11,000 medics have assumed responsibility for work in temporary hospitals, and over 23,000 medical workers are responsible for collecting nucleic acid samples,” Jiao Yahui, a senior NHC official said, according to a Xinhua news agency report.

Nearly 4,000 people have been dispatched to support the work in the Covid-19 testing lab, the report said.

Chinese authorities have extended their lockdown of Shanghai to cover all its 25 million people after a fresh surge in Covid cases.

Initially, there had been separate measures for the eastern and western sides, but the whole city is now subject to "indefinite" restrictions.

Shanghai is the largest single city to be locked down to date, and so far, as per reports, 73000 COVID cases have been detected there.