Coronavirus: Shanghai finds three community infections two days after lockdown, raising concerns of resurgence and U-turn
- All 85 close contacts of the three Covid-19 carriers found in Huangpu, Baoshan and Xuhui districts have been quarantined, where 70 of them tested negative
- Shanghai reported 16 new Covid-19 infections – including the seven community cases – on Friday, reversing the declining trend for the first time in 13 days
Shanghai spotted another three community infections, two days after it lifted a citywide lockdown, fuelling fears of a resurgence of the Covid-19 outbreak among the city’s 25 million residents.
The local health authorities have stepped up tracking and tracing to cut transmission chains after 10 cases were spotted in communities over the past three days, Shanghai’s health commissioner Wu Jinglei said during a press briefing on Friday evening.
“Facing a complicated situation, we will double down on efforts to reduce the number of new infections and prevent a resurgence of the outbreak from taking place,” he said.
All 85 close contacts of the three Covid-19 carriers found in Huangpu, Baoshan and Xuhui districts have been put under quarantine, where 70 had tested negative for the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Wu said.
Three residential compounds where the infected residents lived have now been classified as “medium-risk” areas, requiring residents to be confined to their homes for 14 days.