{"id":1399303,"date":"2022-03-24T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399303"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:45:13","slug":"chinese-experts-express-lockdown-concerns-as-coronavirus-hits-wealthy-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-experts-express-lockdown-concerns-as-coronavirus-hits-wealthy-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese &#039;Experts&#039; Express Lockdown Concerns as Coronavirus Hits Wealthy Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-experts-express-lockdown-concerns-as-coronavirus-hits-wealthy-shanghai%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese Communist Party authorities must ensure Shanghai residents are able to maintain their \u201clivelihoods\u201d in the coming days despite local health authorities\u2019 orders to lock down residential complexes city-wide to test for the Chinese coronavirus, Shanghai-based infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3171663\/covid-19-dont-forget-people-must-still-live-and-earn-we-fight\">advised<\/a> on Thursday according to the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em> (<em>SCMP<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe daily lives and businesses of Shanghai residents should not be neglected by authorities as they battle a surge in Omicron cases in [Shanghai],\u201d Zhang Wenhong said in a statement posted to China\u2019s Twitter-like microblog platform, Weibo, on March 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[T]he director of Huashan Hospital\u2019s department of infectious diseases called for authorities to ensure residents\u2019 livelihoods, keep medical channels open and protect private businesses as the city works to keep the outbreak under control,\u201d the <em>SCMP<\/em> reported on Thursday after reviewing Zhang\u2019s social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn [the] future, maintaining a normal life should be stressed as much as the \u2018dynamic zero-Covid\u2019 policy,\u201d Zhang wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s \u201czero-Covid\u201d policy refers to its method of containing outbreaks of the Chinese coronavirus. Chinese state health officials have practiced the program over the past two years by ordering mass lockdowns of residential complexes at the center of suspected or confirmed Chinese coronavirus epidemics. The scheme sees all affected residents forbidden from leaving their homes, often for weeks at a time, while they undergo mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s local Communist Party officials ordered a \u201czero-Covid\u201d approach to the city\u2019s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-reports-2054-new-covid-cases-march-23-vs-2667-day-earlier-2022-03-24\/\">reported<\/a> on the city\u2019s anti-epidemic protocol on March 24, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a meeting on Wednesday [March 23], Shanghai\u2019s Communist Party leaders emphasised the need to continue testing, implementing \u201cclosed loops\u201d and cutting off transmission chains in order to bring new infections to zero as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The city also said more districts would be locked down for mass testing from Thursday [March 24] to Friday [March 25], including the major financial district of Lujiazui, with residents told not to leave home unless strictly necessary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) distinguishes between \u201cconfirmed\u201d (symptomatic) infections and \u201cunconfirmed\u201d (asymptomatic) infections of the Chinese coronavirus. The NHC on March 23 said it documented four new \u201cconfirmed\u201d infections of the Chinese coronavirus in Shanghai that were locally transmitted. Shanghai additionally recorded 979 asymptomatic infections of the same disease on March 23, according to the NHC.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s latest Chinese coronavirus epidemic began sometime in early March, as the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/chinese-city-locks-down-shanghai-shuts-schools-as-covid-spikes\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on March 11 it would shutter its schools \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d to contain a fresh outbreak of the disease. The city was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/03\/21\/china-claims-coronavirus-measures-effective-as-shanghai-disney-shuts-down-again\/\">close<\/a> Shanghai Disneyland on March 21 after failing to curb its latest outbreak of the disease earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai is the most densely populated city in China, which itself is the world\u2019s most populous country. The metropolis of Shanghai is\u00a0home to more than 26 million people and serves as a global financial hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist Party authorities must ensure Shanghai residents are able to maintain their \u201clivelihoods\u201d in the coming days despite local health authorities\u2019 orders to lock down residential complexes city-wide to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}