Shanghai extended a standstill order throughout the city to April 26, tightening its stranglehold on a lockdown that’s entering its fourth week to track down every Omicron case in one of China’s largest population centres.
City authorities have extended their “static management” measures until next Tuesday to plug the loopholes around unguarded compounds, where infections have flared up again after days of laying dormant. The standstill order curbs the movements of medical staff, health officials, delivery couriers and community volunteers in those areas.
Additional mass tests will be conducted throughout the city in varying frequencies depending on the risks of infection in each area, as Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan pushed local authorities to be “relentless” in tracing, isolating and treating every single case of the disease in China’s new Covid-19 epicentre, with 25 million residents.
Shanghai added 17,629 new cases in the previous 24 hours, 4.7 per cent fewer than a day earlier, according to data released on Friday, taking the city’s cumulative cases to 443,500 since March 1. Symptomatic cases fell 26.7 per cent to 1,931, in the biggest one-day decline since the disease broke out, while 11 patients died. #China #Covid #Shanghai
