Pudong in Full Lockdown, Puxi from April 1st

Image: Shanghai City Government announcement

11000+

Total active cases in Shanghai

2600+

New cases in Shanghai

45 confirmed + 2631 asymptomatic

286 of them not detected among those in quarantine

(March 26th)

 Lockdown information 

From 5am on Monday, a lockdown will first be imposed on Pudong, Punan and adjacent areas (including the Pudong New Area, Fengxian, Jinshan and Chongming districts as well as Pujin Subdistrict and Pujiang Town in Minhang District and Xinbang, Shihudang, Maogang and Yexie towns in suburban Songjiang District) to carry out nucleic acid testing. The lockdown here will be lifted at 5am on April 1.

In Puxi, the quarantine measures for the key subdistricts and towns will continue. Other areas in Puxi will be put under lockdown from 3am on April 1 through 3am on April 5 for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.

"The measure aims to curb the spread of COVID-19, protect people's life safety and health as well as achieve the dynamic zero-COVID-19 target at the social level as soon as possible," the city's coronavirus prevention work leaders' office announced. The new round of "block and grid" COVID-19 screening is decided after evaluating the situation of the previous rounds of grid screenings and experts' analysis, the office revealed.

During the lockdown, all residential communities will be closed. All residents are required to stay at home. People and vehicles will only be allowed to enter but not exit the neighborhoods. Meal delivery and courier services will remain operating with non-contact delivery to ensure basic life necessities. Delivery staff won't be allowed to enter communities.

Public transport, including buses, subways, ferries, taxis and online-hailing cars, will also be completely suspended during the lockdown. Only special vehicles, such as those for pandemic prevention or ambulances, will be allowed on local roads in locked-down areas. Sufficient supplies of food and necessities must be ensured along with stable prices during the lockdown, the office observed. Green channels will be opened for those with medical requirements, especially pregnant women or those who need hemodialysis, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

 Shanghai: New cases (March 26) 

 19 Medium-Risk Areas 

 The MILD variant: 0.1% severe cases in China  

More than 95 percent of COVID-19 patients in the latest outbreak have been mild or asymptomatic cases, a Chinese health official told a press conference on Saturday. Less then 0.1 percent were in a severe or critical condition, Jiao Yahui from the National Health Commission (NHC) said, noting that some provinces are seeing a rapidly rising number of infections, as the prevalent Omicron variant flares up in multiple locations across the country. From March 1 to 18, more than 29,000 local infections were reported in 28 provincial-level regions across the Chinese mainland, NHC data showed.  

For more details, click here.

Source: Xinhua

https://english.news.cn/20220319/90d5b351d32f4c149043144b5892841a/c.html

 No more hospitalisation for mild symptom patients  

China has updated the COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment protocol for the first time in two years, ordering COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms to go to centralized quarantine facilities instead of being hospitalized - and lowering the bar for patients to be discharged from hospital. 

The updated edition has been revised based on the study of variants like Delta and Omicron, optimized case finding, hospital admission, antiviral therapy, TCM treatment and nucleic acid testing standards. The relaxation in hospital admission and nucleic acid testing standards are aimed to ease the stress on medical resources and help relieve recent COVID-19 prevention pressure. 

For more details, click here.

 3 Causes of China's recent COVID-19 surge  

Imported infections, transmission of the Omicron variant and a high proportion of asymptomatic and mild cases are three major causes to the expanded clustered outbreak across the country. Wu also said he is confident that the latest outbreak will be significantly brought under control in the coming weeks if measures are effectively taken.

For more details, click here.

 Travel 

For a real-time update on the risk areas in China, click here. If you've visited any of the areas below, or your office/ living address is registered in one of those areas, you might risk being quarantined when you visit another city or region. 

If you have travel plans, click here to check the real-time COVID travel restrictions updates. Call the hotline (area code + 12345), airlines, hotels, airports, or train stations. We also recommend you to check with your hotel in advance, as some restrict foreigners, and others (especially in smaller cities) require a recent COVID test. Call, and then call again. Also make sure you prepare the  local health code.

 Daily China COVID-19 update 

 ↓ ↓ ↓

Source: 上海日报SHINE, 健康上海, National Health Commission

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TsvyDB4lcQ2orNgOhA6dxA

-Advertisements-