Late last night #Beijing officials announced that mass #Covid testing would spread beyond #Chaoyang to other parts of the city + that by 8pm Monday 3.69 million people had been tested, that 526,457 results were already in and that they were all negative. #China
Today #Beijing added another 33 official new #Covid infections but, if I’m correctly understanding the government’s language, all of them were already in isolation. Does this means the millions of tests yesterday have not yet identified extra cases in the community here? #China
I may be wrong but, at this stage, with the the trajectory as it is, it seems like #Beijing may NOT be about to have a city-wide lockdown. Instead it’s looking more like specific compounds or specific neighbourhoods may have lockdowns when needed. Of course, this could all change
At a press conference still going on, officials in #Beijing have said that - following 3.5 million #Covid tests in #Beijing yesterday - there have still been zero new infections in #Chaoyang district, outside of those already in isolation. #China
If these are the real prerequisites for #China opening up again, no 1 and no 2 are pretty easily achievable, no 3 could take years and, for no 4, officials here just need to stop misleading the Chinese public about #Covid, what #Omicron is and what’s going on internationally.
https://twitter.com/yanzhonghuang/status/1518938221534711808
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