The district of Minhang, in the southwest of the Chinese megalopolis, will be confined on Saturday morning and its inhabitants will have to pass a PCR test, announced the local authorities.
Le Monde
An announcement which arouses the concern of the inhabitants of the Chinese metropolis as to a potential reconfine general of the city. Despite the deconfinement started for a few days, Shanghai announced on Thursday June 9 that it would confine a district of 2.7 million inhabitants on Saturday in order to detect the entire population.
The minhang district, in the southwest of Shanghai, will be confined on Saturday morning and its inhabitants will have to pass a PCR test, local authorities announced on the WeChat social network. “The closure will be lifted after the collection of samples,” they added, without specifying a date or specific time, or what measures would be taken in the event of detection of positive cases. Under the national “zero covid” national health strategy, all the positive people are in theory placed in quarantine.
The city has raised a large part of the restrictions last week on its 25 million inhabitants, which had been confined since at least the beginning of April to face a flambé of Covid-19, the most virulent since 2020. But the disconception is not total: several hundred thousand people remain confined in their residential complexes due to the detection of positive cases.
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“Will the locking of the district [Minhang] be really lifted after the collection of samples?” Wonders a user of the Weibo social network. “What will happen if there are positive results? Will confinement continue?”, Squiets another. The town hall denied rumors on Thursday according to which the rest of Shanghai would again be confined.
Confainment has brought up the economy, but the metropolis has come back to life for a few days. Metros and buses circulate again, while the Shanghaians take advantage of the restaurants, bars and parks of the city. Some residents are however still stuck at home, which sometimes arouses tensions with the authorities. The Ministry of Health reported nine new positive cases the day before in Shanghai.
The Chinese capital, Beijing, is slowly closer to normality after closing restaurants, bars, sports halls and parks last month to eradicate an epidemic flambé – of much smaller at Shanghai. The main district of the city, that of Chaoyang, however ordered the closure of clubs and bars on Thursday after the detection of a few cases, announced official media.