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In April 2022, amidst the largest outbreak in China since early 2020 driven by the Omicron variant, China continued to uphold its zero-COVID policy, [60] although a reduction was made to quarantine periods and self-testing kits were made more widely available. [61] Notably, the city of Shanghai was placed in a strict city-wide lockdown. [62] [60]
Doctor Zhang Wenhong of the Shanghai Medical Treatment Expert Group, said the control of COVID-19 in Shanghai is like "catching a mouse in the ceramic shop", and said maintaining a normal manufacturing industry and public life is important. Due to the Omicron variant, Shanghai's COVID-19 response had been challenged. [14] [15]
Through November 2021, China was the world's largest exporter of COVID-19 vaccines, with a cumulative share of around 40% of worldwide exports (totalling around 1.5 billion doses), according to the World Trade Organization. [516] China's response to the initial Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak has been both praised and
Nine out of 10 U.S. COVID deaths are people who are 65 and older, according to new Washington Post analysis of CDC data. Older adults have been hit the hardest by the virus over the past nearly ...
The head of the World Health Organization said China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it ...
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reassured members of Congress on Thursday that the "upsurge" in respiratory illness in China is not from "a new or novel pathogen."
Shanghai authorities announced a city-wide lockdown split in two stages for mass testing on 27 March 2022, after the city reached its highest recorded daily new cases due to the Omicron variant. [15] [16] Starting on 28 March, residents living east of the Huangpu River would go into lockdown for four days, and the other half for the remaining four.