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The lockdown imposed on Shanghai, the center of China's economy, is expected to last longer.

This is because the corona virus is not going away, but the authorities believe that the virus can be spread through animals, so cats and fish are also tested for corona.



This is a report by Correspondent Kim Ji-sung, Beijing.



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A fish market in Shanghai.

A quarantine worker puts a cotton swab into the mouth of a live fish and performs a PCR test.



[Quarantine agent: ((fish) doesn't bite. It's okay.) We need to collect this inside.

You can't let go of it.]



On Chinese social media, a video of PCR testing on chickens and cats is also uploaded, but the Chinese quarantine authorities believe that animals can transmit Corona 19 to humans.



We decided to introduce a robot that automatically collects a sample when a person opens their mouth.



However, the number of infected people is not decreasing.



More than 60% of mainland Chinese infections still come from Shanghai.



An environmental sanitation agency in Shanghai even spent 4 nights and 5 days in a communal bathroom because the area in charge was closed.



Following the blockade in the eastern part of Shanghai, starting today (1st), the western part, where about 30,000 Koreans live, has entered a total lockdown.



[Lee Jun-yong/Chairman of the Shanghai Korean Association: Daily necessities are living without great difficulties (so far) with the necessities already prepared and government subsidized necessities.]



Shanghai authorities originally planned to divide the city into east and west and block it for four days, but the lockdown period is expected to be longer.



This is because even in the eastern region where the lockdown was expected to end, additional lockdowns were entered into the areas where the confirmed cases appeared.



In effect, the entirety of Shanghai has been blocked, and it is already predicted that China's economic growth rate this year will fall below the target.



(Video coverage: Choi Duk-hyun, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan CG: Kang Yu-ra, video source: Weibo)