Deliverymen wearing protective suits carry bags of food at the gate of a residential community in Shanghai, China, Monday, April 11, 2022. COVID-19 surge.
Highlight
- China’s zero covid policy is proving to be a failure as record cases still emerge
- This is the situation when China is one of the top 5 countries to administer the maximum number of jobs
- Questions are also being raised on the efficacy of its Kovid vaccine.
The COVID situation is once again getting out of hand in China, which is aggressively following a strategy of ‘Zero COVID Tolerance’, but still records new cases almost daily after the Omicron outbreak. are being recorded. The current situation in the country indicates that the ‘Zero Covid Strategy’ has failed to contain the spread of the infectious disease.
Questions are also being raised about the efficacy of China’s COVID vaccine, which has not been as successful as compared to India’s vaccines or other jabs being given across the world.
China has always been notorious for revealing the real figures of new cases and deaths to the world.
Most people in China have been given a vaccine like ‘Made in China’. sinoform But these have not been as effective as other vaccines.
Has China’s vaccine completely failed?
The new Covid wave has China once again questioning the efficacy of its domestic vaccine, even as the country is following a ‘zero COVID strategy’, but cases are still spreading.
Even after strict lockdowns, and even after most of the population is fully vaccinated, if cases are still being reported in large numbers, it shows that their vaccine has failed.
China is one of the top 5 countries in the world with the highest number of vaccinations.
Shanghai remains a hotspot of Kovid infection
Shanghai, the country’s largest city, currently remains a hotspot of corona infection. New record cases are being reported in the city even during the strict lockdown.
The lockdown in China is proving to be ineffective and people are angry about the lack of vaccinations and food supplies. People of China are demonstrating online as well as on the streets.
Shanghai released 6,000 more people from central facilities where they were under medical observation to guard against the coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday, although most of China’s largest city was being kept in lockdown for a third week.
About 6.6 million people in the city of 25 million were allowed to leave their homes on Tuesday, but some were confined to their own neighborhoods. Some housing compounds still appeared to keep residents locked inside, and further lifting of restrictions was unclear on Wednesday.
Authorities have warned that Shanghai still doesn’t have the latest surge in cases for the Omicron version, despite its “zero-tolerance” approach, which has confined some residents to their homes for three weeks or more.
China also requires anyone who tests positive or is a close contact of such a person for at least a week in centralized observation centers in pre-fabricated buildings or gymnasiums and exhibition halls to limit the spread of the virus. is to spend.
The city’s health bureau said on Wednesday that 6,044 people had been allowed to return home after leaving the surveillance centers the day before, although health surveillance would continue.
The number of newly detected daily cases in the city rose to 26,338, of which 1,189 people showed no symptoms. With a total of more than 200,000 cases, the ongoing outbreak is China’s biggest pandemic ever. But mass testing has caught many asymptomatic cases, and there have been no deaths in Shanghai.
The lockdown has caused frustration among residents of Shanghai about the lack of food and non-delivery.
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