Shanghai people emptied supermarkets before the blockade
Residents of Shanghai, China today (March 30) lined up in front of supermarkets, clearing the shelves of goods to prepare for the second phase of the blockade starting from April 1.
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| Supermarket shelves are empty after Shanghai residents buy groceries. Photo: Yahoo News |
According to Reuters news agency, Chinese authorities have begun a blockade of some areas west of Shanghai, two days earlier than planned due to the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the most populous city in the country. strong, despite the measures that have been imposed to prevent the corona virus from spreading.
China’s financial hub, with a population of 26 million, is in its third day of lockdown. Shanghai authorities have imposed the blockade by dividing the city in half along the Huangpu River.
While residents in the east of Shanghai have been under lockdown since the beginning of the week, those in the west will have to stay indoors from April 1. Some residents in Shanghai’s western districts have received notices that they cannot leave their residential building for the next seven days.
Today, Shanghai officials said, the number of asymptomatic Covid-19 cases here was a record high with 5,656 cases and 326 cases of symptoms on March 29. Since the blockade on the east of the city, Shanghai authorities said they had conducted 9.1 million Covid-19 tests.
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Hoai Linh
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