Shanghai resumes production in 16 days

Major companies in the automotive, semiconductor and biomedical sectors must submit detailed plans for protection against the spread of the virus. COVID-19 for local health authorities to consider before continuing to operate in closed loop conditions, the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission announced on the evening of April 16.

The announcement, according to SCMP, is the first step that the financial and commercial hub of mainland China has taken to loosen controls on manufacturers as most of the facilities have been shut down since the beginning. April.

“Shanghai’s COVID-19 prevention and control measures have dealt a heavy blow to the auto industry,” said David Zhang, a researcher at North China University of Technology. all the thousands of auto supply chain companies based in Shanghai have come to a standstill. This is a serious problem that needs to be resolved as soon as possible.”

The decision to ease the blockade was implemented by Shanghai in the context of the spread of the Omicron variant. Shanghai added 24,820 new COVID-19 cases, with 3,238 of these being symptomatic, on April 17. The city’s total infections now top 350,000 since the outbreak began on March 1.

Wu Jinglei, director of Shanghai’s health commission, said at a press conference on April 17 that another mass test will launch in the coming days to detect infection and cut the chain of transmission as the city insists. achieve the zero-COVID goal.

Shanghai has rolled out at least nine rounds of mass testing across the city with all 25 million residents since April 3.

Nationwide, China added 26,016 new cases on April 17, with most in Shanghai. Guangdong province has 40 more cases, with 29 symptomatic cases. Jilin province has 692 more cases.