BEIJING: The Shanghai administration has erected fences outside residential buildings as China tightened its strict ‘zero-covid’ policy, sparking outrage among the people over the lockdown. The lockdown has forced 25 million people in the city to stay indoors. After 22 new cases of corona were reported in the Chinese capital, Shanghai, on Saturday, everyone working or living in the largest district, Chaoyang, had to undergo three tests of covid and more than a dozen buildings were banned.
In Shanghai came across pictures of employees in white PPE suits sealing the entrances of societies and closing the entire alley with green fences. This fence was about 2 meters high. Citizens who came against these pictures complained and raised questions. Volunteers and staff erected iron barricades at the entrances to small streets and apartment complexes in many districts. The main entrances to the buildings where the cases came from were sealed off and only a small space was left open for our rush of epidemic control personnel.
Long queues at supermarkets in Beijing due to fears of a severe lockdown
BEIJING: Fearing a severe lockdown, people in Beijing bought large quantities of daily necessities at home as people lined up for testing in the central district on Monday after widespread testing was ordered by the Chinese administration. China is already trying to quell the Covid-19 transition wave in its largest city, Shanghai.
In Shanghai, the administration has failed to provide meals to home prisoners while patients are having difficulty accessing non-covid medical care. Multinational companies and embassies are located in Chaoyeng, Beijing’s largest district, where mass testing has been ordered since Monday. Following orders for mass testing and warnings of Covid’s “serious” condition, Beijingers rushed to the supermarket, with some stores running out of supplies and long lines of customers outside.