In recent weeks, and despite the fact that the authorities assure that the aforementioned “precautionary” areas already bring together the vast majority of the more than 25 million residents, in many of them it is still not possible to leave the housing blocks by decision of the neighborhood committees, the bodies that govern urbanizations.
Shanghai plans that life in the city recovers “totally” the “normal” before the end of June, their authorities announced today after a month and a half of strict confinement before their worst covid-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
The Shanghai metropolis plans to enter a stage of “normalized management” on June 1 that will gradually give way to a “normal order of production and life in the city.”
This was announced at a press conference by the deputy mayor of the city, Zong Ming, collects the medio local The Paper.
This would be the last of the three stages in which the municipal government now divides the management of the pandemic for the coming weeks.
The first, Until May 21, will focus on avoiding an increase in infections while reducing the number of confined inhabitants, although still with “limited movement” “effective control” y “a low level of social activity”.
In the next, between May 22 and 31, the one already announced will take place “transition” towards the normalization of measures, returning from the current zone classification system according to its level of confinement to the usual low risk, medium to high.
During this period they will also begin to resume “gradually” public transport operations.
Infections continue to fall in Shanghai
Shanghai today reported 958 new infections (91% asymptomatic), thus falling below a thousand for the first time since March 24, and very far from the peak of almost 28,000 registered just over a month ago.
Since the end of March, the city has recorded more than 57,000 confirmed cases. -that is, symptomatic, since the asymptomatic do not swell the official number of infected- and a total of 575 deaths.
At the moment there is still almost 4,100 hospitalized, of which 261 are in serious condition and 65 are critical.
According to Zong, 15 of the city’s 16 districts have already reached “zero social transmission”, term that refers to a situation in which, for three consecutive days, less than one contagion among every 100,000 residents of the zones “precautionary” y “controlled”, as well as in those that have already been deconfined.
Las “controlled” areas of the city are those urbanizations in which the residents can move around the common areas, while in the “precautionary” its residents can leave the complex though not district boundaries.
Given the drop in infections, the local government had already announced last Friday that hoped to cut the transmission of covid outside isolated areas and internment centers for those infected in the middle of this month, although he had not specified a specific date for it.
This Saturday, the diario local Shine reported the closure of five of the ten internment centers erected at the municipal level to isolate those infected, and He assured that only about 50,000 people remained in those complexes.
Restrictions continue in Beijing
Meanwhile, in Beijing, restrictions continue due to the small but incessant trickle of cases -today 39 were counted- before which selective confinements have been decreed in various areas of the Chinese capital, the suspension of school classes, the closure of indoor spaces or the recommendation to work from home.
The residents underwent during the last three days to each round of PCR under the warning that those who did not undergo them would see them appear in the tracking application for the coronavirus a notification that prevents free movement until there is a negative result.
The total number of infections since the current outbreak began -last April 22nd- rises to 1,113.
The Chinese Government remains unmoved in its policy of “zero covid”, relentlessly applied during the last outbreaks due to the contagious omicron and which has its most extreme exponent in Shanghai.
The harshness of the measures has caused innumerable complaints even in the Peking University, of special symbolic importance given that the protests of 1989 repressed during the Tiananmen massacre began there.
as show videos distributed by Twitter, A group of students gathered last night to protest to officials against the construction of fences to isolate the center of a residential block where staff who work at the university live.
The students expressed their dissatisfaction with the confinement that has been imposed on them, since they must remain in the campus dormitories at all times while those who live outside the campus can enter and leave the campus.
Peking University students protest against the confinement with fences imposed to combat the coronavirus. Discontent is spreading across China, and rightly so.pic.twitter.com/TEcEIGoSGq
— Zigor Aldama 齐戈 (@zigoraldama) May 16, 2022