Shanghai New Cases surging, Armed Police Forces Dispatched for Patrolling

Shanghai New Cases surging, Armed Police Forces Dispatched for Patrolling

The epidemic in Shanghai continued to be severe. On Monday, Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the State Council of the CCP arrived in Shanghai to guide the epidemic control and prevention. She pressed hard and demanded that fast action be top priority, rapid contain and centralized isolation, and accelerate the construction of makeshift hospitals and the expansion of centralized isolation areas. It is hoped that the confirmed cases will be fully “cleared to zero” as soon as possible.

The Shanghai Municipal Government immediately launched a citywide mandatory nucleic acid test for “36 hours of decisive battle”. Before all the test results come out, the public continued to “stay at home”, resulting in the number of newly infected cases exceeding 10,000 for the first time on Tuesday, reaching 13,354. Today, the number of confirmed cases reached another record high, with 17,077 new cases confirmed in Shanghai as of 24:00 on April 5.

In addition, on the night of Sun Chunlan’s arrival in Shanghai, citizens living near Hongqiao Airport photographed multiple military aircrafts entering Shanghai at the same time. Yesterday, a citizen from Changzheng Town Street, Putuo District stated in a WeChat group that the neighborhood committee received a notification from above and was ordered to exit immediately. The community was fully taken over by the military.