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"Zero Infection Cases": China's Largest Closure Comes to Long-Term End | Israel today

2022-05-15T18:56:08.619Z


In March, all Shanghai residents were placed under an unusual closure in Chinese terms as well, given the authorities' failure to control the Omicron wave • Severe restrictions on 26 million people left a severe crisis of confidence due to arbitrary laws and harsh enforcement There is no longer a local infection


The economic capital of China and the most populous city, Shanghai, comes out on Monday from the largest quarantine imposed on a Chinese city since the outbreak of the corona plague.

The closure, created following a renewed outbreak of corona in March, was imposed for six weeks and was reportedly unusual in size even relative to the onset of the plague - 26 million people were actually besieged in their homes in one way or another and also hurt the Chinese manufacturing and finance industry. 

The removal on Monday will be gradual: first shopping centers, hairdressers and other businesses like supermarkets will be able to allow customers to come again physically but not en masse.

However, many of the residents, who during the closure felt a feeling of suffocation and severe shortage of some of the products (which was mainly due to delivery problems of deliveries), doubted whether the closure would be removed at a satisfactory pace. 

"Who are you lying to," wrote a brother responding to the deputy mayor's remarks when it announced the relief on Sunday.

"You open the shops but do not allow people to leave their residential buildings."

Over the past six weeks many guidelines have been arbitrarily worded and created massive confusion, in part because the implementing echelons in the field have been afraid to disappoint the high echelons of the Communist Party.

Already in recent days many residents have been allowed to go for short walks and even get haircuts on the street, but now the intention is to allow the routine to return and even the subway system is starting to show signs of life by test rides, though it is unclear when it will reopen. 

The unusual closure, also in Chinese terms, stemmed from the authorities' failure to implement the "zero local infection" policy in which each case of infection was imposed on a local area in a certain area of ​​the city.

In many cities in China this policy worked, even if it caused local closures of hundreds of millions of people, but in Shanghai the omicron eruption got out of hand and so a massive closure was decided upon. 

Following the imposition of the survey, infection rates began to fall, and on Saturday zero infections were reported outside the hospital complexes where the verified were placed. 

Either way, in the capital Beijing there are still severe restrictions on certain exaggerations even though no total closure has been imposed.

For example, restaurants in Beijing still cannot get customers to sit down, and there are still parts of the city where the work is done remotely.

The intention is to conduct daily mass inspections of all or most of the city's residents.

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Source: israelhayom

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