প্রকাশ: 09/06/2022
Parts of Shanghai
began imposing new lockdown restrictions on Thursday, with residents of
sprawling Minhang district ordered to stay home for two days in a bid to
control Covid-19 transmission risks.
Minhang, home to more than 2 million people, will conduct
nucleic acid tests for all residents on J11 une, and restrictions will be
lifted once the testing is completed, the government said on its WeChat
account.
Shanghai reported four new confirmed symptomatic Covid-19
cases on Wednesday, all in zones already under quarantine. None of the new
cases were in Minhang district.
Shanghai emerged from a two-month city-wide lockdown last
week, but some residential compounds have been sealed off again as authorities
continue to pursue a "dynamic zero-Covid" policy aimed at shutting
down transmission chains as soon as possible.
This means that authorities quickly enforce movement curbs
and testing requirements in areas where not only positive cases, but also their
close contacts, live or have visited.
Several street-level government authorities have issued
notices saying residents will be subject to two days of confinement and another
12 days of rigorous testing starting from Thursday.
According to notices from at least three neighbourhoods in
Shanghai, residents will be subject to five rounds of compulsory tests ending
on 23 June, and will be kept indoors until Saturday.
Green fences and red wooden boards have sprung up over the
past week along some of these streets close to these neighbourhoods,
barricading residents in and triggering fresh public anger.
Zhao Dandan, the vice-head of Shanghai's health commission,
told a briefing on Tuesday that the city would continue to implement
restrictions even in areas that had not been identified as "high
risk".
"Based on the assessment of the epidemic prevention and
control trends, related measures will be adjusted dynamically," he said.
"We hope the public will continue to understand and cooperate."
City authorities have been trying to balance their adherance
to zero-Covid with encouraging business resumption, given how badly the local
economy and companies were hit by the two-month long lockdown.
The Shanghai Disney Resort, which has been shut since 21
March, said it will reopen some retail and park areas from Friday but the main
Disneyland park, Disneytown and its two resort hotels will remain closed until
further notice.
Officials in the city, China's most cosmopolitan and its
biggest business hub, have also been trying to mend ties with foreign firms by
holding multiple meetings with executives and easing a key border requirement
for overseas workers.
Still, business chambers said uncertainty surrounding
Covid-19 restrictions remained a key concern for foreign firms.
"This unpredictability, and increased risk, is
resulting in many businesses delaying, reducing or withdrawing entirely from
the Chinese market," said Alexandra Hirst, senior policy analyst with the
British Chamber of Commerce in China.
- Reuters
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