Shanghai To Lock Down Millions For Mass Testing As China's Covid Cases Surge

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Source: The Guardian

China will shut down its largest city in two stages as it sticks to a 'zero-Covid' strategy amid growing outbreaks of the virus. Shanghai will launch a phased lockdown to curb an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 outbreak that has hit China with its highest caseloads since the early days of the pandemic, the city government said.

China's biggest city will lock down its eastern half from Monday until Friday, officials said, followed by a similar lockdown of its western side beginning on 1 April. The metropolis of 25 million people has in recent days become the leading hotspot in a nationwide outbreak that began to gain pace in early March.

A record 3,450 symptomatic cases were reported in Shanghai on Sunday, accounting for nearly 70% of the nationwide total, along with 50 symptomatic cases, the city government said on Monday. China's National Health Commission on Monday reported 5,134 new asymptomatic cases for the previous day, and 1,219 local confirmed infections.

Although the case numbers remain insignificant in a global context, they are China's highest since the first weeks of the pandemic, which first emerged in the city of Wuhan in late 2019. Millions of residents in affected areas across the country have been subjected to citywide lockdowns...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge

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- AP News, Shanghai starts China's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years. March 28, 2022. 5 mins ago.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-china-beijing-b406df3a0113b9be99273324fec2c12e



- A delivery man walks by police officers with protective suit outside of a hotel in Shanghai, China, on March 15, 2022. China began locking down most of its largest city of Shanghai on Monday, March 28, as part of its strict COVID-19 strategy, amid questions over the policy's economic toll on the country.

[NullTuples]

1. Meanwhile here in the USA, funding for testing & vaccines runs out April 5th

...Thanks to Republicans refusing to fund it just to make President Biden "look bad".

[BigmanPigman]

2. I'm still fuming over that.

Worldometers said China had 1,275 new cases for Sunday. I wonder why there is such a big discrepancy with the numbers. 2,000 is a big difference.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Was looking at that and wordometers is citing that figure from a news release from China

here - http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/202203/9e682bf6b5cc48749ae7a1a6247cc1dd.shtml

I did a Google Translate of that -

The latest situation of the novel coronavirus pneumonia as of 24:00 on March 27
Release time: 2022-03-28 Source: Office of Health Emergencies

From 0 to 24:00 on March 27, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 1,275 new confirmed cases. Among them, 56 were imported cases (14 in Guangxi, 12 in Sichuan, 10 in Shanghai, 6 in Guangdong, 4 in Jilin, 3 in Zhejiang, 3 in Fujian, 2 in Beijing, 1 in Heilongjiang, and 1 in Henan), including 15 1,219 local cases (1,086 in Jilin, including 706 in Changchun, 367 in Jilin, and 1 in Siping) 11 cases, 1 case in Liaoyuan City, 1 case in Songyuan City; 50 cases in Shanghai, including 20 in Minhang District, 6 in Xuhui District, 5 in Baoshan District, 4 in Jing'an District, 4 in Putuo District, 4 in Pudong New District, and 4 in Jiading District 3 cases, 2 cases in Huangpu District, 1 case in Hongkou District, 1 case in Songjiang District; 12 cases in Liaoning, including 5 cases in Shenyang City, 4 cases in Huludao City, 2 in Anshan and 1 in Yingkou; 10 in Heilongjiang, including 9 in Harbin and 1 in Qitaihe; 9 in Fujian, including 8 in Quanzhou and 1 in Nanping; 9 in Henan, including 8 in Zhoukou 1 in Luohe City; 8 in Tianjin, including 4 in Xiqing District, 2 in Jinghai District, 1 in Hexi District, and 1 in Hebei District; 8 in Shandong, including 4 in Tai'an, 3 in Binzhou, and 3 in Zibo. 1 case; 7 in Hebei, including 3 in Langfang, 2 in Tangshan, and 2 in Qinhuangdao; 4 in Guangdong, including 2 in Zhaoqing, 1 in Shenzhen, and 1 in Dongguan; 4 in Shaanxi, all in Ankang City; 3 cases in Jiangsu, including 2 in Taizhou and 1 in Xuzhou; 3 in Anhui, including 1 in Wuhu, 1 in Huainan and 1 in Lu'an; 2 in Zhejiang, including 1 in Jiaxing and 1 in Taizhou 1 case; 1 case in Jiangxi, in Nanchang City; 1 case in Guangxi, in Guilin City; 1 case in Yunnan, in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture; 1 case in Gansu, in Lanzhou City), including 217 cases from asymptomatic infection Confirmed cases (201 in Jilin, 4 in Fujian, 4 in Shaanxi, 3 in Shandong, 2 in Tianjin, 2 in Zhejiang, and 1 in Liaoning). No new deaths were reported. There were 6 new suspected cases, all imported from abroad (all in Shanghai).

There were 1,097 newly cured and discharged cases, 26,867 close contacts released from medical observation, and 5 more severe cases than the previous day.

There are 914 confirmed cases imported from abroad (no severe cases), and 19 suspected cases. A total of 17,309 confirmed cases have been confirmed, 16,395 have been cured and discharged, and no deaths have been reported.

As of 24:00 on March 27, according to reports from 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 27,745 confirmed cases (including 58 severe cases), 112,132 cured and discharged cases, and 4,638 deaths. , a total of 144,515 confirmed cases have been reported, and there are 19 suspected cases. A total of 2,236,344 close contacts have been traced, and 379,771 close contacts are still under medical observation.

31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 5,134 new cases of asymptomatic infections, including 138 imported cases and 4,996 local cases (3,450 cases in Shanghai, including 1,420 cases in Pudong New Area, 596 cases in Minhang District, and 4,996 cases in Xuhui District). 274 cases, 249 cases in Jiading district, 237 cases in Chongming district, 189 cases in Songjiang district, 89 cases in Baoshan district, 67 cases in Putuo district, 65 cases in Jing’an district, 55 cases in Huangpu district, 46 cases in Changning district, 45 cases in Fengxian district, Qingpu district 43 cases, 35 cases in Yangpu District, 26 cases in Hongkou District, 14 cases in Jinshan District; 907 cases in Jilin City, including 571 cases in Jilin City, 330 cases in Changchun City, 5 cases in Siping City, and 1 case in Songyuan City; Fujian 179 cases, including Quanzhou City 176 cases, 3 in Zhangzhou; 144 in Hebei, including 108 in Tangshan, 35 in Langfang, and 1 in Shijiazhuang; 114 in Liaoning, including 65 in Shenyang, 38 in Yingkou, 8 in Dalian, and 8 in Jinzhou 2 cases, 1 case in Liaoyang City; 58 cases in Shandong, including 38 cases in Binzhou City, 16 cases in Weifang, 1 in Qingdao, 1 in Tai'an, 1 in Weihai, and 1 in Liaocheng; 35 in Anhui, including 14 in Huainan, 12 in Wuhu, 6 in Tongling, 1 in Huaibei, 1 case in Chuzhou, 1 in Fuyang; 18 in Guangdong, including 6 in Shenzhen, 5 in Zhaoqing, 3 in Dongguan, 1 in Foshan, 1 in Maoming, 1 in Shanwei, and 1 in Qingyuan; 16 cases in Jiangsu, including 7 in Suzhou, 5 in Nantong, 1 in Nanjing, 1 in Xuzhou, 1 in Yangzhou, and 1 in Suqian; 15 in Heilongjiang, including 7 in Harbin, 7 in Jiamusi, 1 case in Hegang City; 12 cases in Guangxi, including 9 cases in Fangchenggang City, 2 cases in Guilin City, and 1 case in Chongzuo City; 11 cases in Yunnan, including 5 cases in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, 4 cases in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and Honghe Hani 2 cases in the Yi Autonomous Prefecture; 11 in Gansu, including 10 in Lanzhou and 1 in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture; 8 cases in Tianjin, including 3 in Hebei District, 2 in Hedong District, 2 in Xiqing District, and 1 in Hexi District; 7 in Jiangxi, including 6 in Nanchang and 1 in Shangrao; 5 in Henan, including 3 in Luohe 1 in Nanyang, 1 in Zhoukou; 3 in Zhejiang, including 1 in Hangzhou, 1 in Jiaxing, and 1 in Zhoushan; 2 in Hubei, including 1 in Ezhou and 1 in Huanggang; 1 in Inner Mongolia, In Tongliao City); 232 confirmed cases on the same day (15 imported from abroad); 761 cases of medical observation released on the same day (103 imported from abroad); 38,649 cases of asymptomatic infections still under medical observation (1358 imported from abroad).

A total of 306,932 confirmed cases have been reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Among them, there were 284,081 cases in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (42,632 discharged and 7,252 deaths), 82 in the Macau Special Administrative Region (80 discharged), and 22,769 in Taiwan (13,742 discharged and 853 deaths).


(Note: When citing by the media, please mark "Information from the official website of the National Health Commission".)

So it could be that worldometers might be a day behind based on their linked "source" that was reflecting data for March 27, 2022, reported March 28 vs the figure that the Guardian article might now have access to that would be data for March 28 (that might have been recently released but not linked since Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of U.S. ET and the Guardian article was published near midnight U.S. east coast time as they are 5 hours ahead of U.S. ET).

[BigmanPigman]

6. Now I'm curiois...

was this just for this one time or do they have many days when numbers don't add up.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Well since those numbers appear to be covering the weekend

it could be like they tell us here, they don't always get the complete results the Monday after the weekend due to some labs not doing tests and/or analysis over weekends and/or not reporting the results until a few days later into the new week.

But there also seems to be a nomenclature difference where there is use of the term "cases" vs the term "infections" (from the OP article) -

A record 3,450 symptomatic cases were reported in Shanghai on Sunday, accounting for nearly 70% of the nationwide total, along with 50 symptomatic cases, the city government said on Monday. China's National Health Commission on Monday reported 5,134 new asymptomatic cases for the previous day, and 1,219 local confirmed infections.

So it's possible the "infections" are PCR-confirmed and "cases" may be the total positives from both the rapid tests and PCR tests, which might explain the discrepancy in the numbers (knowing that trying to get PCR tests can be a challenge), with worldometer just reporting confirmed "infections".

[BigmanPigman]

8. That makes more sense.

[IronLionZion]

4. Asia and Europe are having a surge in cases now

with Russia now number one in daily deaths and South Korea has the most daily new cases.

US cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are down...for now. We'll see if our conservatives make it great again.

[oldsoftie]

5. And it'll work as well as it has the LAST 2 years. Not very.

Covid is here to stay. get vaccinated & take extra precautions if you're vulnerable. but shutting down the world has proven to be a failure. Sorry