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A medical worker from eastern China's Anhui Province takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a community in Huangpu District of Shanghai on Monday, April 4, 2022
SHANGHAI extended a city-wide lockdown today, saying the rate of Covid infection in China’s biggest city remained “extremely grim.”
On Monday night authorities reported completing nucleic acid testing for all 26 million residents — the largest mass testing operation in the world so far — while 38,000 health workers from other areas were deployed to help handle the outbreak.
Once the full test results are analysed advice on whether to ease restrictions would be issued, but until then “citizens are asked to follow the current lockdown measures and stay in their homes except for medical and emergency situations,” said Shanghai working group on epidemic control director Gu Honghui.
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