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According to CNN, since the beginning of November, eight people working in the cargo sector at Shanghai Pudong International Airport and their close contacts have been diagnosed and confirmed with coronavirus. Two of these cases were reported on Sunday.
To control the virus in the group, authorities ordered all airport cargo personnel to take an overnight coronavirus test and a temporary test point on the second floor of the garage, Shanghai management said in a statement. .
Welcome to the world of clowns 🤡 2 people at Shanghai Pudong International Airport tested positive for Covid-19. So they decided to lock up 100,000 people in the airport and test each one of them. What a joke! 🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/wFJ45sJaDx
– ninnyd 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 KBF ~ Waiting4TheRevelotion (@ ninnyd101) November 22, 2020
Photos and videos strewn across Chinese social media show hundreds of people huddled in the garage and not maintaining the required social distance. Lined in protective suits, people try to stop an advancing crowd.
Some workers at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport tested positive for the coronavirus, so they tried to force thousands of people into the parking lot for mandatory tests.
People weren’t happy about it. Many escaped.
November 22, 2020 pic.twitter.com/XpRi5WUqPi
– Things China doesn’t want you to know (@TruthAbtChina) November 22, 2020
But the chaos seems to have subsided before midnight. The airport police then posted photos on the Weibo social network of staff lining up and waiting for the test.
As of Monday morning, 17,719 samples were taken. 11,544 samples were tested, all with negative results, officials said at a news conference.
Massive chaos in the #Carry off Pudong International Airport in #China after the sudden announcement by authorities to test all personnel # COVID-19 after the detection of two positive cases. The crowd trying to break the blockade was forced to be quarantined. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/iwx9Aw4vUe
– RAVEEN (veenraveenaujmaya) November 22, 2020
Although the initial chaos on Chinese social media has been criticized, the swift and drastic response to just a few cases underscores the Chinese government’s ambitions to curb any potential resurgence of the virus.
Millions of people are testing in three cities
Chinese officials are testing millions of people for the coronavirus, introducing quarantines and closing schools following a series of cases of non-imported infections in three cities across the country last week.
With the drop in air temperature, the cities of Tianjin, Shanghai and Manchouli are facing large-scale limitations, although there are not many new cases of infection here compared to the United States and other countries battling the second wave of the illness.
Many experts and government officials warn that when the weather cools, the coronavirus could spread faster. Recent outbreaks have shown that the infection can return at any time, although China has largely managed to control the epidemic.
The National Health Commission said Monday that two new cases of non-imported coronavirus had been detected in Shanghai in the past 24 hours and that the number of confirmed local infections had risen to seven since Friday.
Since late last year, when the new coronavirus first appeared in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, 86,442 cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection have been confirmed in the country and 4,634 people have died from the disease.
In Tianjin, health workers took more than 2.2 million. samples for coronavirus testing from Binhai district residents. Last week five cases of non-imported infections were identified in this area.
Manjouli city, home to more than 200 thousand. people, local health officials are testing the entire population, finding two cases of infection here on Sunday. The city has also closed all schools and public spaces, as well as banned public gatherings such as banquets.
China takes extremely strict measures whenever new non-import related cases are detected. Schools and hospitals are immediately closed, entire neighborhoods isolated, and millions of people tested.
The Tianjin authorities closed a kindergarten and transferred all its staff and the families of the children attending the kindergarten to an isolated space. A residential complex was also isolated, where five cases of infection were identified.
China is coming under fire for draconian pandemic control measures. It closed the city of Wuhan for more than two months, where the first cases of infection were identified. To slow the spread of the infection, the local government stopped all public transportation and ordered residents to stay home.
But Beijing is very proud and proud of its coronavirus management strategy.
“Worldwide, only China can achieve zero cases. Other countries cannot do that,” Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at an online seminar organized by the media. of the country in September.
“It’s difficult for them to control even the first wave, much less get to zero,” he said.
According to Zeng Guang, a “zero” strategy is in fact the most cost-effective way to prevent an epidemic.
“Without these measures, the problem will increase,” he said. “Take tougher action, get no cases, and keep people quiet.”
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