Shanghai will remain under lockdown as it reviews results of an exercise to test all of its 26 million residents for COVID-19, authorities said on Monday.
Some residents woke up before dawn for white-suited healthcare workers to swab their throats as part of nucleic acid testing at their housing compounds, many queuing up in their pyjamas and standing the required two metres apart. Shanghai, which began a two-stage lockdown on March 28 that has been expanded to confine practically all residents to their homes, reported 8,581 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 425 symptomatic COVID cases for April 3. It also asked residents to self-test on Sunday.
China’s primarily uses pool testing, a process in which up to 20 swab samples are mixed together for more rapid processing. Some have begun to question the policies, asking why COVID-positive children are separated from their parents and why mild or asymptomatic infections - the majority of Shanghai’s cases - cannot isolate at home.
“How is this isolation?” he said, adding that he was now afraid of being re-infected. “I’m not in any mood to do anything right now, I can’t sleep.”
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