China: Number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise in Shanghai
Preparation for anti-Covid-19 tests in Shanghai (China) on April 1, 2022. REUTERS - ALY SONG
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More than 13,000 cases today in China, a record since Wuhan, including 8,226 in Shanghai: the largest city in China has been confined for a week for the eastern part, and for three days for the western part.
In total, these are 25 million people deprived of exits because China is still applying its “zero Covid” policy.
A policy that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the face of a very contagious Omicron variant.
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With our correspondent in Shanghai,
Léo Cirah
"
Number 62 to number 90, please come out for the PCR test
"... It is the third day of confinement for the western part of Shanghai, Puxi.
A life punctuated by announcements from the loudspeakers of neighborhood committee volunteers: PCR or antigen tests, garbage collection, food distribution, confinement is strict, and it promises to be long, while the number of cases continues to increase. increase in the city.
Take his troubles patiently
And, while most people take their troubles patiently, more and more are expressing their anger on social networks.
In particular, these thousands of inhabitants who tested positive who are sent every day to isolation centers equipped with a few beds, and sometimes partitions, installed in a hurry in gymnasiums or exhibition centers.
Glimmer of hope
“
There is no water in the toilets
, says this person,
they are full of excrement;
we don't have anything to wash our faces with, they don't give us medicine;
it's been three days and we don't even have tests, we are not told when we will have them
.
A glimmer of hope this weekend: calls from experts are increasing to authorize the isolation of patients at home, which would be significant progress.
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To read also: China: the anguish of parents positive for Covid-19 separated from their children in Shanghai
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