Shanghai to lock down and test 2.7 million as Covid fears linger

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Shanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said, as the Chinese metropolis struggles to fully emerge from punishing curbs.

 

The city eased many restrictions last week, after confining most of its 25 million residents to their homes since March as China battled its worst Covid outbreak in two years.

 

But the lockdown was never fully lifted, with hundreds of thousands in China's biggest city still restricted to their homes and multiple residential compounds put under fresh stay-home orders.

 

The southwestern district of Minhang, home to 2.7 million people, will be placed under "closed management" on Saturday morning and all residents will be tested, district authorities said in a social media post on Thursday.

 

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[candide]

The Chinese government is trapped by its previous policy. It's now a question of not losing face, above pragmatism.

[GrandPapillon]

they acted like when Mao was finding "great" solutions to "big" problem, creating more problems than solving them, like the famine he created 

 

how things never change ????

[Tropposurfer]

Imagine what would happen with such a very large, and densely situated populace where hundreds and hundreds of millions were/are still not vaccinated if this virus got out of control?

Man there'd be mountain after mountain of bodies in very short order. It would be like the US death toll on mega-steroids!

[Skeptic7]

Morons. 

[Credo]

It would seem to me that instead of just a mass testing, they should have a mass vaccination as well.  As they bring everyone in for testing, vaccinate them at the same time.  It will not stop the spread but it will slow it and it will prevent huge hospitalizations.  

[hotchilli]

Chinas home goal coming home to roost.

[oliverX]

I was there during sars, pudong was a ghost town.

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On 6/10/2022 at 5:13 PM, Tropposurfer said:

Imagine what would happen with such a very large, and densely situated populace where hundreds and hundreds of millions were/are still not vaccinated if this virus got out of control?

Man there'd be mountain after mountain of bodies in very short order. It would be like the US death toll on mega-steroids!

Imagine what would happen if the Chinese govt had allowed its population to be vaccinated with superior vaccines from the West.