After Shanghai records new record number of cases symptomatic of Covid-19 this Saturday (16), with 3,590, other areas of China decided to reinforce controls, while the country continues with the strategy of “dynamic release”, which aims to end the Ômicron variant, which is highly transmissible.
THE Zhengzhou airport economic zonea Chinese manufacturing hub that includes Apple supplier Foxconn, announced a 14-day lockdown on Friday “to be adjusted according to the epidemic situation”.
In northwest China, the Xi’an city urged residents on Friday to avoid unnecessary travel outside their residential complexes and encouraged businesses to have employees work from home or live at their place of work, after registering dozens of Covid-19 infections this month.
A government official in Xian, responding to residents’ concerns about possible food shortages, said Saturday that the announcement did not constitute a lockdown.
THE Suzhou citynear Shanghai, said Saturday that all employees capable of working from home must do so, and residential and business complexes must avoid unnecessary entry of people and vehicles.
Shanghai numbers
In addition to the 3,590 symptomatic cases, Shanghai has reported 19,923 asymptomatic cases. The number of asymptomatic cases increased slightly from the previous day’s 19,872 cases.
Source: CNN Brasil
