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For a week, Italian computer scientist Alessio has been holed up in his apartment in Pudong, a district of Shanghai, east of the Huangpu River, which splits the city in two.
Meanwhile, her friend Cherry, who lives in Puxi, an area that concentrates the rest of the districts on the other side of the river, has taken advantage
of the remaining days of freedom this week
to fill her pantry well and drink the occasional beer with friends.
On Friday, Cherry, an American born in China, has had to stay home.
She was beginning her four-day isolation.
Alessio, in theory, could already go out on the street after finishing the quarantine.
But
the authorities changed their minds
and suddenly ordered that Pudong residents who live in a neighborhood where there have been positives
should stay locked up for another 10 days
.
In Pudong, the financial hub of China's economic capital, many banks and investment firms asked their employees to barricade themselves in the office this week to avoid any business interruption during the lockdown.
Some companies offered
a bonus of up to 2,000 yuan (285 euros) per night for the worker who decided to spend confinement in the office
.
Puxi, the city's most populous historic center famous for its bustling nightlife and luxury shopping, will now go through the same as the neighboring district amid a
slow-motion shutdown of a megacity of 26 million people
.
After several weeks trying to avoid the total closure of the city, with random closures of neighborhoods where infections rebounded, last Monday the local authorities gave up and decreed a two-phase blockade, first in Pudong, where around 11 million live. of people, and as of this Friday in Puxi, with almost 15 million.
Shanghai is the new epicenter of China's worst Covid outbreak in two years
, reporting more than 25,000 cases in a month.
From a single positive located on March 1, they have gone to almost 5,000 new cases detected on Thursday.
The coronavirus sends tremors through China's persistent Covid-zero strategy, which has had to shut down its economic engine room and
confine a population that will have to go through several rounds of PCR tests
before returning to normal, as long as the infections have subsided.
In Shanghai
, strategies similar to those taken in the first outbreak in Wuhan in January 2020 are being repeated
: closed neighborhoods with large plastic fences, workers sealing doors of houses so that no one skips the confinements and public officials and neighborhood committees patrolling the city decked out in PPE suits.
This week several videos have gone viral on Chinese networks.
The first is that of
a robot dog running through a residential neighborhood in Shanghai with a loudspeaker on its back
and launching Covid-19 prevention tips.
"Wear masks, wash your hands frequently, take your temperature and disinfect your floor," the dog recommended.
"Fight the pandemic with science and stay civil when you're outdoors."
Other popular videos focused on food fights in supermarkets that were running out of supplies or older women refusing to let health workers put the cotton swab into their mouths to do a PCR.
Medical teams from various provinces, with around 3,500 health workers, have arrived in Shanghai this week to help, especially with the massive tests.
Many hotels have converted their rooms into massive quarantine centers and a field hospital has been set up
.
The problem is that in conventional public hospitals there are many people, especially the elderly, who complain these days of lack of attention to treat their illnesses.
The Chinese newspaper
Sixth Tone
recounts the case of a 63-year-old man from Pudong with esophageal cancer who undergoes immunotherapy once every three weeks at a hospital across town.
His treatment has been suspended while the restrictions continue.
Another 68-year-old woman, who suffers from uremia and requires hemodialysis treatment to clean her blood three times a week, has been turned away from a dozen hospitals because positive cases of Covid have been reported in the community where she lives.
In social networks, more users are coming out,
fed up with continuous closures that they understand less and less, who use applications to let off steam
.
On Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, a publication circulated a few days ago that claimed that a patient undergoing chemotherapy in a Shanghai hospital died while in quarantine.
The note was removed from the platform, as were other comments from citizens who shared stories about the death of sick relatives and friends due to interruptions in their treatment due to the fact that some hospitals were blocked only to treat Covid patients.
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