Shanghai's case numbers are small compared to some cities globally, but it is battling China's worst COVID-19 outbreak since the virus emerged in the central city of Wuhan in 2019.
SHANGHAI, China – Shanghai reported nearly 25,000 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections on Sunday, April 10, as residents of China’s most populous city voiced complaints over food and basic supplies and concern spread that more cities may soon be in the same situation.
The city has become a test bed for China’s elimination strategy, which seeks to test, trace and centrally quarantine all COVID-positive people to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Executives for e-commerce giants JD.com 9618.HK and food delivery service Ele.me attended the city’s daily briefing, seeking to convince residents that bottlenecks would ease.
Beijing’s municipal government placed a high-risk area under lockdown on Saturday after eight COVID cases were confirmed in the last two weeks, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, told reporters.
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