China sent tens of thousands of additional healthcare workers to Shanghai to help conduct mass testing of 26 million residents for COVID-19.
Some 20,000 workers were deployed to Shanghai on Monday amid a citywide lockdown in the world’s third-biggest city and home to 25 million people.
“The city will continue to implement seal-and-control management and strictly implement ‘staying at home,’ except for medical treatment,” the Shanghai government said on its WeChat account, according to Reuters. The city has been under a two-stage lockdown since March 28. Shanghai officials also requested that residents self-test by Sunday.
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The 15,000 workers primarily came from the neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, according to the state-operated China Daily. The workers were also accompanied by more than 2,000 personnel from the Chinese military, according to a Chinese military newspaper.
That brings the total of medical workers in Shanghai to more than 38,000, according to Chinese state media.
The Shanghai lockdown has been China’s largest public health response since the initial discovery of COVID-19 in late 2019. Chinese officials reported 8,581 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 425 symptomatic cases in Shanghai on April 3.
While Chinese media has attempted to spin the lockdown as a positive event, several Shanghai residents have posted complaints online, according to the Associated Press. Residents appear to be fed up with the measures and methods used to enforce them.
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Some Shanghai residents have begun to push back on Shanghai’s COVID-19 policy, including the decision to separate COVID-19-positive children from their parents. Shanghai leadership shifted their position on Monday on parents and children. Shanghai official Wu Qianyu said at a Monday news conference that parents could accompany children if they were also infected but would be separated if the parents were not.
