{"id":21399,"date":"2022-05-10T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21399"},"modified":"2022-05-10T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:23:42","slug":"shanghai-tightens-lockdown-despite-falling-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/10\/shanghai-tightens-lockdown-despite-falling-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai tightens lockdown despite falling COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of\u00a0strict lockdown\u00a0due to a COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n

Notices issued in several districts said residents were ordered to stay home and are barred from receiving nonessential deliveries as part of a \u201cquiet period\u201d lasting at least until Wednesday. The tightened measures could be extended depending on the results of mass testing, the notices said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for your understanding and cooperation. Together we can lift the lockdown at an early date,\u201d said one notice issued in the city\u2019s Huangpu district and posted online.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear what prompted the renewed tightening, with numbers of new COVID-19 cases in the city continuing to fall.<\/p>\n

Shanghai on Monday reported 3,947 cases over the previous 24 hours, almost all of them without symptoms, along with 11 deaths. Authorities have been gradually lifting isolation rules on the city\u2019s 25 million residents, but the new orders appear to be returning to conditions at the early stage of the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Shanghai originally ordered\u00a0mass testing along with a limited lockdown, but extended that as case numbers rose. Thousands of residents have been forced into centralized quarantine centers for showing a positive test result or merely having been in contact with an infected person.<\/p>\n

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Two Shanghai residents reached through social media said they\u2019d had no prior notice of the new restrictions, which they were told could last for up to a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re unprepared,\u201d said Zhang Chen, a researcher with a technology company. \u201cI packed my luggage thinking it would be my turn next\u201d to be taken to a quarantine facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what will happen in May, but after the lockdown, I think I\u2019ll need psychological help,\u201d Zhang said.<\/p>\n

A marketing professional in the western Pudong district said quality of life has been declining even as living expenses continue to rise under lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time, they say lockdown will be eased after a few days, but there seems to be no end,\u201d said the woman, who asked that she be identified only by her surname, Lu, to avoid repercussions from authorities who have cracked down heavily on dissent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll aspects of work are affected. I don\u2019t know when it will be time for the lockdown to come to an end,\u201d Lu said.<\/p>\n

In Beijing, authorities closed down the largest city district, with residents told to stay home and stores closed. Beijing has ordered\u00a0daily testing of all residents, closed parks and other leisure venues and limited restaurants to takeout business only.<\/p>\n

The usually bustling Sanlitun area crammed with restaurants, boutiques and an Apple store was all but deserted. Despite that, retiree Yang Xiaochang said Beijing appeared to be far better prepared to weather the surge than its southern cousin.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though at the beginning there were some panic buying \u2026 Beijing will not be like that,\u201d Yang said, referring to Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Still, companies and investors worry the ruling Communist Party\u2019s \u201czero-COVID\u201d strategy that closed most businesses in Shanghai and other industrial centers is disrupting global trade and activity in autos, electronics and other industries.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s export growth tumbled in April\u00a0as global demand weakened, adding to pressure on the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n

Exports rose 3.7% over a year earlier to $273.6 billion, down sharply from March\u2019s 15.7% growth, customs data showed Monday. Reflecting weak Chinese demand, imports crept up 0.7% to $222.5 billion, in line with the previous month\u2019s growth below 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of\u00a0strict lockdown\u00a0due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Notices issued in several districts said residents were ordered to stay home and are barred from receiving nonessential deliveries as part of a \u201cquiet period\u201d lasting at least until Wednesday. The tightened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3504,6263,7960,7421,9331,8307,8263,5222,5200,12950,7396,11337,5196,11638,6543,3459,8235,11973,6332,9457,96,5278,8497,13301,5601,5349,7294,6675,10329,9085,3954,5273,10415,36,594,6309],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-fitness","tag-apple","tag-beijing","tag-case","tag-chinese","tag-city","tag-communist","tag-communist-party","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-customs","tag-data","tag-demand","tag-economy","tag-forced","tag-growth","tag-leader-xi-jinping","tag-lockdown","tag-one","tag-online","tag-outbreak","tag-china","tag-quality","tag-quarantine","tag-results","tag-shanghai","tag-social-media","tag-symptoms","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-weather","tag-will","tag-woman","tag-work","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zero-covid"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}