Beijing [China]: As Shanghai\u2019s COVID-19 lockdown leaves residents struggling to access essentials, residents of the mega Chinese city are almost out of food and they are reeling under an acute food crisis.<\/p>\n
They say that they \u201conly eat one meal a day\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t know how to live until May\u201d, The HK Post reported. According to the report, the epidemic situation in Shanghai is still deteriorating, and the number of infected people is still high under the \u201czero lockdown\u201d policy.<\/p>\n
On April 3, the Chinese government announced the deployment of thousands of military personnel to Shanghai to assist in the mandatory testing of all 25 million residents for the virus that causes COVID-19. Later, Shanghai authorities said the city would indefinitely remain under lockdown \u2013 meaning that residents are not allowed to leave their homes \u2013 as it reviews results of the mass Covid testing.<\/p>\n
Analysts have said China would not risk relaxing its zero-Covid stance before then, over fears of a destabilizing outbreak. Meanwhile, health experts have warned the virus could overwhelm health care systems, and put the elderly, who lag in vaccinations, at risk, CNN reported.<\/p>\n
But even as Beijing sticks to its zero-tolerance approach, it is facing the possibility of multiple major outbreaks as Omicron spreads, the report added.<\/p>\n
According to the authorities, Shanghai has had more than 130,000 COVID cases since 1 March, yet nobody has died and there is only one seriously ill person. Such statistics fly in the face of the rest of the world\u2019s experience with COVID.<\/p>\n
Wu Zunyou of China\u2019s Center for Disease Control said death rates were minimal because of efforts to curb outbreaks early and China\u2019s high vaccination rate. \u201cCompared with overseas, our country\u2019s COVID-19 death rate is low because of the various measures to prevent or reduce deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n
When reporting deaths, there are strong incentives in China not to attribute them directly to COVID if alternative underlying conditions are available. Because of official obfuscation, it is simply impossible to know how many have died from COVID there. China also spends lots of time blaming imported frozen food and mail for spreading COVID.<\/p>\n
Beijing claims a Zero-COVID policy must be followed because \u201cOmicron can generate a higher mortality rate than Delta during the epidemic\u201d. This assertion is verifiably false. Perhaps other reasons are more pertinent to the CCP\u2019s choice of a Zero-COVID policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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