Coronavirus cases grow in Shanghai despite confinement

Shanghai reported on Tuesday a new increase in cases of covid-19 Despite the partial confinement decreed in the economic capital of China which caused a stampede of its inhabitants towards the supermarkets.

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The metropolis has become in recent days the epicenter of a new wave of infections linked to the omicron variant, which began to accelerate at the beginning of March and is testing the covid zero strategy of China.

The Ministry of Health reported 4,477 new coronavirus positives on Tuesday in Shanghaiagainst 3,500 the day before in this city of 25 million inhabitants.

This is a low figure on a global scale but high in Chinawhere the number of new daily infections has rarely exceeded a hundred since the spring of 2020, once the first wave born in the city of Wuhan was contained.

Since Monday, the eastern half of Shanghai She has been confined for four days. As of April 1, it will be the turn of the western part of the city.

The authorities justify this confinement in two stages due to the economic impact that locking up the entire city would have.

The sudden announcement of this measure on Sunday night caused an influx of inhabitants to supermarkets in the western part of the city, still open until Thursday.

Many stores appeared to have been looted, with completely empty shelves and aisles.

“The price of goods increases and people panic”told AFP Yang, a retiree who did not want to give his full name.

More than 2,000 km from Shanghaithere are also millions of confined inhabitants in the northeast of China.

Jilin province, on the border with North Korea, is one of the regions hardest hit by the epidemic.

According to local media, 19 temporary hospitals have been built there in the last week.

Source: Elcomercio

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