#Covid lockdown #Shanghai looks like something from a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie… #China.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1509927975524913155
Given the growing #Covid infection numbers in #Shanghai, the government’s current “Zero Covid” approach must surely mean a lot more lockdown time for the city’s 25 million residents. #China
Prior to the current East-then-West full shutdown for 4 or 5 days each, there were already parts of #Shanghai under #Covid lockdown. There will be more parts of the city locked down after the current mass testing of 25 million residents. #China #Omicron outbreaks growing.
The three hurdles to the government of #China switching #Covid policy: 1. Many more vaccine booster shots needed for elderly, 2. The Party has been boasting about its policy as a contrast to the approach overseas so it’d need to explain why it too has decided to open up and 3…
And 3. The Party Congress this October will be when Xi Jinping enters his historic third term. He doesn’t want this with #Covid outbreaks everywhere. If it was an unmanageable health emergency that’d be bad; if it spread and was actually quite manageable could be worse for him?
It could be worse politically because many in #China might start asking if the country needed to keep locking down entire cities, entire provinces? Don’t forget #Jilin Province has been locked down for weeks. 10s of millions of people here are restricted to their homes today.
#Pudong, the east side of #Shanghai, was supposed to have “re-opened” by now after a brief lockdown. This has not happened. The entire city remains closed Sunday, with #Omicron infection numbers increasing. #China’s “zero #Covid” approaches are under massive strain.
Many people in #Shanghai are asking why those infected by #Covid - who’ve been vaccinated and have little or no symptoms - are being forced to go the stay in mass centralised quarantine in crappy (at times actually gross) facilities instead of just staying at home? #China
This compulsory centralised quarantine approach has involved young children sent there without their parents. Babies, only months old, who have tested positive to #Covid (whatever the symptoms) have also been separated from their parents and looked after by staff in quarantine.
The elderly, who’ve tested positive to #Covid, are also being sent to compulsory centralised quarantine centres (whatever their symptoms are) instead of being allowed to just stay at home. These centres are at times in halls or in demountable sheds and potentially with no showers
There is also evidence emerging of health officials not happy that the government is not listening to them and treating the response to #Covid in #China as a political exercise. See this thread…
https://twitter.com/cowboyInNY/status/1510223794400550924
The strain of “Zero #Covid” in parts of #Shanghai during lockdown. #China..
https://twitter.com/jaredtnelson/status/1510403189383876614
Meanwhile in #Jilin Province, north eastern #China…
https://twitter.com/hancocktom/status/1510566255753056262
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