Some 23 Chinese cities are under total or partial lockdown, affecting an estimated 193 million people in areas accounting for 22% of its gross domestic product, the Nomura brokerage said in a note on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the costs to the world's second-biggest economy mount. However, experts said it did not explain the fall in symptomatic cases. The proportion of asymptomatic cases is far higher in Shanghai than the rest of the world, which has been attributed to a screening process that catches infected people before they become ill. Positive results are followed up on an individual level. The government said almost 80% of a total of 25.7 million swabs had been tested by Tuesday morning. BEIJING China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly. Sun Chunlan, vice-premier in charge of COVID prevention, urged grassroots Communist Party organisations to "do everything possible" to help residents solve problems, such as access to medicine, food and water.
"The most important thing is the problem of personal compliance," he said. "Nobody knows how many tests we need to get out," she said.Ĭhen Erzhen, a doctor in charge of one Shanghai quarantine facility, said in an interview with the Communist Party newspaper the People's Daily at the weekend that it was possible that authorities would revise guidelines and allow asymptomatic people to stay home, especially if the number of cases mounted. Jane Polubotko, a Ukrainian marketing manager being held in the city's biggest quarantine centre, told Reuters it was not clear when they would be released. Thousands of residents have been locked up in rudimentary quarantine facilities after testing positive, whether they are symptomatic or not. 28 October 2022 Coronavirus pandemic Getty Images China has reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 cases By Yvette Tan BBC News Dozens of cities across China, including Wuhan where. Shanghai reported a record 13,086 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Monday, authorities said, up from 8,581 the previous day, after more than 25 million people were swabbed in 24 hours in the city-wide testing campaign.
Shanghai imposed tough restrictions last week as it struggled to contain what has become its biggest COVID outbreak, after originally taking a more targeted approach.
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