BIGGEST EVER COVID-19 OUTBREAK BROKE OUT IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai (The Quiver ) : China’s major financial centre of Shanghai is under COVID-19 attack. Severe Covid-19 outbreak in the place made 26 million people to remain in lockdown , supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide COVID-19 testing programme.

The government of the city, which is in the grips of its biggest-ever COVID-19 outbreak, said on Wednesday it would not consider lifting restrictions until the latest tests were completed and the results evaluated.

With many compounds already locked down for more than two weeks, residents have grown frustrated with the restrictions, testing requirements and availability of food and other necessities.

Those people suffer from asymptomatic cases are  allowed to quarantine at home, and policies that separate COVID-positive children from their parents have made the situation more pathetic.

Shanghai detected a record 16,766 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on April 5, up from 13,086 a day earlier. Symptomatic cases also rose to 311 from 268 the day before.

The Chinese government is expanding quarantine capacity, converting the 150,000-square-metre National Convention and Exhibition Center into a quarantine facility that can hold 40,000 people.

Nationwide, there were 1,415 new confirmed coronavirus cases on April 5, up from 1,235 a day earlier, with 1,383 locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said.