Large-scale lockdown can be avoided through regular nucleic acid testing; also, normalizing nucleic acid testing is a transitional means at minimum cost to the future opening&resumption of the whole society, experts said after Beijing issued an order to normalize nucleic acid testing.
With 38,000-plus-member medical support teams from 15 Chinese regions rushing into the city, Shanghai has stepped up efforts in the most arduous battle against one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks since Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019, with lessons and improvements over past two years.
Shanghai, the city of 25 million people, had all residents take a nucleic acid test on Monday, the largest exercise of its kind in any city in China and the world, as the city fights off one of the severest waves of COVID-19 in the country.
The Chinese mainland discovered a total of 103,965 local COVID-19 infections in March in 29 provincial-level regions, national health officials revealed Friday at a press conference, while stressing that China will firmly uphold the dynamic-zero COVID-19 strategy and is still able to achieve that goal.
Chinese financial hub Shanghai is now under the city's most stringent antivirus measures ever in a bid to stamp out the surging number of COVID-19 infections, as the ordered two-phase mass testing and sealing-off plans press the
In facing Omicron - a variant that is highly transmissible and could secretly create new COVID-19 outbreaks - China has been exploring new ways from the experiences it has accumulated over the past two years. The day when Shenzhen, dubbed China's Silicon Valley, fully returned to a normal busy high-tech hub after a week of
Experts from the National Health Commission (NHC) on Friday held a video conference with experts and officials in Hong Kong to share experiences in treating COVID-19 cases while daily new cases exceeded 10,000 in HK Special Administrative Region for the first time that day.
China will provide heterologous booster shots to people who have been fully vaccinated for at least six months amid the rapid spread of highly transmissible Omicron, officials said at a press conference on Saturday.
China will provide heterologous booster shots to people who have been fully vaccinated for at least six months amid the rapid spread of highly transmissible Omicron, officials said at a press conference on Saturday.