Shanghai has extended the Covid-19 lockdown to April 26, amid reports of growing public resentment as the eastern metropolis of 26 million reported 11 more deaths on Thursday. China on Thursday reported 2,119 locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases, of which 1,931 were reported in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission.
Shanghai has added 17,629 new cases in the previous 24 hours, 4.7 per cent fewer than a day earlier, according to data released on Friday, taking the city’s cumulative cases since March 1 to 443,500. Thursday also saw 11 deaths from Covid-19, all in Shanghai, bringing the mainland’s death toll since the coronavirus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 to 4,674, as per official data.
Meanwhile, Shanghai has extended a standstill order throughout the city till April 26, tightening its stranglehold on a lockdown which is entering its 4th week to track down every Omicron case in one of China’s largest centres, the Post report said.
The standstill order curbs the movements of medical staff, health officials, delivery couriers and community volunteers in those areas, the report said. The city will start a series of campaigns on Friday to cut off all Covid-19 transmission chains in communities as soon as possible, local authorities said.
