The city of Shanghai announced, on Tuesday, a new rise in the number of Corona injuries, despite the partial closure imposed by the economic capital of China, which caused the influx of residents to stores to shop extensively.
In recent days, this city has become the focus of a new wave of infections with the "Omicron" mutant of the Corona virus, whose outbreak began to accelerate in early March, undermining China's "zero Covid" strategy.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health recorded 4,477 new cases of "Covid 19" in Shanghai, compared to 3,500 the previous day.
These numbers are low globally, but high for China, where the number of new daily infections has rarely exceeded 100 since the spring of 2020.
Since Monday, a closure has been imposed in the eastern half of the city for a period of 4 days, and as of Friday, the western half of the city will be subject to isolation.
The authorities say they decided to impose a two-stage closure due to the economic impact that would be had on the city if a complete closure was imposed.
The announcement of this measure on Sunday evening caused residents to flock to food stores for shopping in the western half of the city, where stores will remain open until Thursday, while shelves in a large number of stores appeared empty.
"Commodity prices are rising and people are panicking," Yang, a retiree who did not wish to reveal his full name, told AFP.
And more than two thousand kilometers from Shanghai, millions of residents are subject to isolation in northeastern China, in the Jilin Province, which borders North Korea.
Jilin is one of the areas worst affected by the epidemic, and local media reported that 19 temporary hospitals have been built in recent weeks.
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