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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2022 12:57:53 GMT
Shanghai's city-wide Covid lockdown underway - BBC News 26,714 views Mar 28, 2022 China has begun its biggest city-wide lockdown since the Covid outbreak began more than two years ago.
The city of Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days while authorities carry out testing.
Global oil prices have fallen as the lockdown is implemented, Shanghai is an important financial and manufacturing hub.
China's zero-Covid policy has been among the strictest approaches to tackling the pandemic anywhere in the world.
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2022 13:30:16 GMT
Shanghai hit by food shortages in Covid lockdown - BBC News 27,697 views Apr 12, 2022 Shanghai is in a strict lockdown after a surge in Omicron cases.
People in the city are confined to their homes, and most have to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs.
Restrictions in some areas of the city have started to ease amid mounting pressure on the authorities.
China is the world’s only major economy that is pursuing the aim of total elimination of Covid-19.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2022 20:17:23 GMT
Shanghai allowed 4 million more people out of their homes Wednesday as anti-virus controls that shut down China’s biggest city eased, while the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast of Chinese economic growth and warned the global flow of industrial goods might be disrupted. A total of almost 12 million people in the city of 25 million are allowed to go outdoors following the first round of easing last week, health official Wu Ganyu said at a news conference. Wu said the virus was “under effective control” for the first time in some parts of the city. Under the latest changes, more than 4 million people are included in areas where the status shifted from closed to controlled, said Wu. He said some are not allowed to leave their neighborhoods and large gatherings are prohibited. On Wednesday, the government reported 19,927 new cases in China’s mainland, all but 2,761 of which had no symptoms. Shanghai accounted for 95% of the total, or 18,902 cases, of which 2,495 had symptoms. The Shanghai city health agency reported seven people who had COVID-19 died Tuesday but said the deaths were due to cancer, heart disease and other ailments. All but two were over 60. Shanghai shut down businesses and confined most of its population to their homes starting March 28 after a spike in infections. That led to complaints about lack of access to supplies of food and medicine. People in Shanghai who test positive but have no symptoms have been ordered into quarantine centers set up in exhibition halls and other public buildings.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 1:50:35 GMT
Why China isn't backing down on its zero-Covid strategy 226,012 views Apr 18, 2022 Thanks to its zero tolerance for Covid-19 cases, China was the only major economy to grow in 2020.
While the rest of the world battled wave after wave of coronavirus, China’s sealed borders, rigorous testing and strict quarantine policies let life for most people proceed as usual. China’s approach became a source of national pride.
“The success of the strategy has sustained a very low level of infection in comparison to the failure of the liberal democracies, including the United States,” said Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Now, a major outbreak in China’s most populous city, Shanghai, has threatened to change all that, with signs that public discontent is growing. While official figures show that deaths have been very low in Shanghai, there is reason to distrust the official figures, and it underscores the seriousness of the situation, Gabriel Wildau of Teneo told CNBC.
So, how long can China maintain its strict Covid policies? And what matters most to the Chinese government?
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 13:05:45 GMT
Shanghai - China's most populous city and commercial hub - has been in a strict lockdown for about a month. Residents are only allowed to leave their homes in a few parts of the city.
And while the port has been in operation, many exports are not leaving Shanghai because port workers and truck drivers, who transport the goods to and from the port are also affected by the lockdown.
Right now, around a third of the 1,800 container ships stuck in the world, are in or around Shanghai. The city's hard lockdock is affecting global supply chains. Many companies, which produce in China, haven't been getting their goods and parts for nearly three weeks. It takes between 5 and 8 weeks for these container ships to make it from China to Germany so businesses here and elsewhere in Europe, are just starting to feel the problems.
Meanwhile there's a plan underway to isolate dock workers, in an attempt to keep the Shanghai port operational.
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