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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]
The government in China’s far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including physically locking residents in homes, imposing quarantines of ...
By April 17, according to China National Radio, Shanghai had 16 severe cases, all having pre-existing health conditions, with only 1 of them being vaccinated. [24] On the same day, officials reported 3 deaths of COVID-19 infected patients, with all deaths also being linked to other underlying health conditions, such as diabetes .
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 northwestern Chinese city of Xian said on Friday it will temporarily impose a partial lockdown to reduce its 13 million residents' movement, after reporting dozens of COVID-19 infections this ...
China’s numbers are low, but the past week's increase is challenging a “zero-COVID” strategy that aims to isolate every infected person. China tightens restrictions as rise in virus cases ...
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.
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