As the rest of the world eases pandemic restrictions, nearly 200 million citizens are fully or partially confined to China. The ‘COVID zero’ policy becomes more difficult every day to sustain in the country, from where scenes of tension and confinements continue to arrive in quarantine camps.
Only in Shanghai fifty of these fields have already been built. Precisely there, in the economic capital of the Asian giant, the battle against the coronavirus also provokes the fight for food, as the images of the supermarket robbery that illustrate these lines.
The tension is maximum and is also palpable in fights in the middle of the street between sanitary and civilians, as can be seen in the video. Critical situations that are also experienced at the doors of hospitals: another video shows a woman who has just received treatment for another illness and who is no longer allowed to enter or return home.
Only in Shanghai have they been improvised more than 100 hospitals, with 160,000 beds to care for COVID patients, including an exhibition center that will soon receive its first patients.
They have also taken out of nothing fifty quarantine camps like the one that can be seen in the images, which, despite not being finished, is already used to isolate the asymptomatic in the face of the increase in infections. According to city authorities, “daily infections remain at a very high level.”
China has reported more than 25,000 positives in the last few hours, record number of the entire pandemic in the country, even though they are already 23 cities that are confined, which means that 193 million people are locked up in their homes. Strict measures due to Beijing’s ‘COVID Zero’ policy that could threaten Chinese health and economy.
Source: Lasexta
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