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Faced with a major rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic in China, Shanghai and its 25 million inhabitants find themselves confined, alternately. Ma Chunlei, the general secretary of the city’s Communist Party, acknowledged insufficient preparation.
Shanghai (China) seems to have gone into a long sleep. The city is confined night and day, a first since the start of the pandemic. “Faced with this more deadly, more contagious Omicron variant, which caused the cases to increase significantly, our preparation was not sufficient”, recognized Ma Chunlei, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Shanghai. A rare admission of failure from the Chinese authorities.
Officially, 6,331 new positive cases were recorded on Saturday April 2 in the city of Shanghai. Nearly 25 million people are locked up in their homes. Impossible to go out, except for a few minutes to get tested. “We have already done seven tests in less than three weeks. Even if we had a pet, we could not take it out”, reports Laurianne Vallée-Dubroeucq, a lawyer based in China. China’s problem? No collective immunity, and a large number of people at risk, since Shanghai has 4 million seniors.