COVID Testing and Isolation: No Let up for Residents Caught up in Shanghai Lockdown

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Despite weeks of lockdown, Shanghai authorities have enhanced anti-COVID measures in a bid to achieve zero cases in all 16 districts, with some residential compounds being fenced off and daily mass testing for thousands of residents. On May 1, Gu Honghui, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai municipal government and director of the city’s anti-pandemic office, said that six districts in Shanghai have reached “basic zero-clearance” at the social level, China National Radio reported. The social level zero-clearance, according to China Daily on April 27, is one phase of the Chinese Communist Party’s zero-COVID policies, which refers to no new infections being found outside quarantine areas. ...

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