China's Shanghai to carry out some COVID
testing, residents say
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 [July 05, 2022]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Authorities in
at least six districts in Shanghai notified residents that they would be
carrying out mass PCR testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, just over a month
after the city's lockdown was lifted.
Residents of Xuhui, Changning, Jingan, Baoshan, Minhang and Yangpu
districts said they had received notices from their residential
committees about the tests. Some were also told they would be asked to
take a second test on Wednesday or Thursday.
The Shanghai government did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The residential committees did not say in their notices why the testing
was being arranged and how extensive it was.
The city reported eight new local COVID cases on Monday, seven of which
it said were found in quarantined areas.
The city already requires all of its 16 districts to organise mass
testing of residents every weekend until the end of July. Residents also
need to test themselves every three days in order to enter public areas
such as shopping malls or take public transport.
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A resident gets tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) behind
barriers of a sealed area, amid new lockdown measures in parts of
the city to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in
Shanghai, China June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
 Although China's most populous city
has lifted a two month-long lockdown of its 25 million residents, it
still imposes targeted curbs on movements whenever a COVID case is
found outside quarantined areas.
City lockdowns and repeated mass testing, part of China's zero-COVID
policy that aims to eradicate all outbreaks, have brought case
numbers down but many of the measures have fuelled anger and taken a
toll on the economy.
(Reporting by the Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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