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.