{"id":1459921,"date":"2022-05-02T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459921"},"modified":"2022-05-02T08:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:14:45","slug":"hard-hit-shanghai-finally-showing-signs-of-life-as-beijing-tightens-covid-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hard-hit-shanghai-finally-showing-signs-of-life-as-beijing-tightens-covid-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-Hit Shanghai Finally Showing Signs Of Life as Beijing Tightens COVID Curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fhard-hit-shanghai-finally-showing-signs-of-life-as-beijing-tightens-covid-curbs%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=1459921&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>&#8220;The impact of all this on us is too great &#8211; 20,000 yuan (US$3,000) in a day gone, just like that!&#8221; said Jia, a manager at a normally popular burger restaurant in the east of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our boss is stressing out about this too,&#8221; Jia said, asking to be identified only by his surname. &#8220;We have three branches in Shanghai. They&#8217;ve all been shut and losing cash for a month. And now this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s sprawling Universal Studios theme park closed on Sunday, while in the highly visited Badaling section of the Great Wall, visitors were told to show proof of negative COVID-19 test results before entering.<\/p>\n<p>Chaoyang district, accounting for the biggest share of infections in Beijing&#8217;s outbreak, launched an additional round of mass testing, with public health workers knocking on doors to remind residents to get tested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do the PCR test everyday and I know I am not sick,&#8221; said a Chaoyang resident surnamed Ma, whose local health app on her mobile phone had marked her profile as abnormal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel caged, like I am sick. These restrictions are too excessive,&#8221; said Ma, who works in finance.<\/p>\n<h2>ANGER IN SHANGHAI<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/shanghai-hits-key-milestone-covid-19-battle-cases-china-fall-2657311\">Shanghai&#8217;s citywide lockdown<\/a> since early April has upended the daily lives of its residents, sparking worries about food and concern about being taken to crowded quarantine centres should they catch the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme measures taken to seal up residential compounds, including fencing up entrances of buildings, have prompted outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents have turned to social media to vent their frustration, some clanged pots and pans outside their windows, and others clashed with public health workers.<\/p>\n<p>The song &#8220;Do you hear the people sing?&#8221; from the musical Les Miserables has become a popular protest anthem. On Saturday, an online video of a Chinese orchestra playing the song, with the musicians performing from their respective homes, went viral with nearly 19,000 shares before it was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>While much of the city remains in lockdown, Shanghai officials, striking a confident tone, said on Sunday that curbs on some areas would be eased after the city reined in COVID-19 transmission risks at the community level, excluding cases in quarantine centres.<\/p>\n<p>Six of its 16 districts attained zero-COVID status, meaning three consecutive days with no new daily increases in infections, senior city government official Gu Honghui told a virtual news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Public transport will be allowed to resume in five districts, but residents must remain in their districts as they visit supermarkets, pharmacies and hospitals, a health official told the news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Social media posts showed the streets of Fengxian, one of the six districts, filled with pedestrians and choked with scooters and bicycles. Reuters could not independently verify the videos.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the fall in transmissions, Shanghai will launch a new round of citywide PCR and antigen tests from Sunday until May 7.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding imported cases arriving from outside the mainland, China reported 8,256 new local cases for Saturday, down from 10,703 a day before. Beijing accounted for 59 of the infections, while Shanghai saw 7,872 new cases and all of the nation&#8217;s 38 fatalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The impact of all this on us is too great &#8211; 20,000 yuan (US$3,000) in a day gone, just like that!&#8221; said Jia, a manager at a normally popular burger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459921","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\/1459921","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459921\/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=1459921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}