A marketing professional in the western Pudong district said quality of life has been declining even as living expenses continue to rise under lockdown. “I don’t know what will happen in May, but after the lockdown, I think I’ll need psychological help,” Zhang said. “I packed my luggage thinking it would be my turn next” to be taken to a quarantine facility. “We’re unprepared,” said Zhang Chen, a researcher with a technology company. Two Shanghai residents reached through social media said they’d had no prior notice of the new restrictions, which they were told could last for up to a week. Thousands of residents have been forced into centralized quarantine centers for showing a positive test result or merely having been in contact with an infected person. Shanghai originally ordered mass testing along with a limited lockdown, but extended that as case numbers rose. Shanghai on Monday reported 3,947 cases over the previous 24 hours, almost all of them without symptoms, along with 11 deaths.Īuthorities have been gradually lifting isolation rules on the city’s 25 million residents, but the new orders appear to be returning to conditions at the early stage of the outbreak. It wasn’t clear what prompted the renewed tightening, with numbers of new COVID-19 cases in the city continuing to fall. Together we can lift the lockdown at an early date,” said one notice issued in the city’s Huangpu district and posted online. “Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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