A man assured that he had locked his car to Kovid and stayed inside for ten hours without opening the window.
Beijing The resident had decorators that morning who told him that he had tested positive, China The news service reported.
He climbed into his white coupe on Tuesday afternoon and didn’t walk until 10 p.m., despite having never been tested for the virus.
“I knew the chances of getting infected were very high, so I tried to avoid contact with anyone to avoid getting into trouble with others,” he explained.
The man’s car doors were sealed with tape, despite the fact that he had never tested positive for Covid
Government stickers left on the vehicle showed the date and advised people to stay away
‘Soon after I found out about this, I stopped in my car without even opening the window. This is what I should have done for public health.
Images show that the man’s car was sealed from outside with tape and stickers referencing Covid. He didn’t address this in his comments.
Finally around 5 pm he ordered KFC, but still did not leave the vicinity of his car to receive it.
The man said: ‘It was a contact-free delivery. The delivery man put my food on the side of the road and after he left I went to get it.
His story was shared by the state-backed news agency in an apparent attempt to rally the public behind the extreme measures seen in the country.
The man stayed in the car park outside his apartment building in the capital Beijing (pictured)
Beijing tightened restrictions today, while Shanghai let some of its 25 million residents venture out for light and air after reporting a second day of zero infections outside quarantine zones.
Beijing, now in its 10th day with an outbreak of dozens of daily infections, has not formally closed down. More than 300 locally transmitted cases have been registered since April 22.
But on Sunday the capital tightened social distancing norms and launched a new round of mass testing in its most populous and worst-hit district.
In the past week the city of 22 million has conducted mass testing in most of its 16 districts, suspending all entertainment venues and closing restaurants.
‘The impact of all this on us is enormous – 20,000
Residents in Shanghai have taken to social media to vent their frustration, with some pitchers and pans locked outside their windows. Others clashed with public health workers.
Song ‘Do you hear people singing?’ Music from Les Miserables has become a popular protest anthem.
On Saturday, an online video of a Chinese orchestra playing the choir, in which musicians were performing from their respective homes, went viral with nearly 19,000 shares before being blocked.
While much of the city remains in lockdown, Shanghai officials said in a confident tone on Sunday that restrictions would be eased in some areas after the city reined in COVID transmission risks at the community level, with cases in quarantine centres. except.
Public transport would be allowed to resume in five districts, but residents should remain in their districts as they visit supermarkets, pharmacies and hospitals, a health official told the news conference.
Social media posts showed the streets of Fengxian, one of the six districts, full of pedestrians and full of scooters and bicycles. Reuters could not independently confirm the video.
But despite the drop in transmission, Shanghai will launch a new round of PCR and antigen tests across the city from today, May 7.
Excluding imported cases from outside the mainland, China reported 8,256 new local cases on Saturday, up from 10,703 the day before.
Beijing had 59 infections, while Shanghai reported 7,872 new cases and all 38 deaths in the country.
China has adopted a zero-Covid strategy despite experts’ warnings that the Omicron version spreads too quickly to be contained by the lockdown, in a year when Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term as president.
President Xi on Friday reaffirmed his commitment to the policy, leaving China at odds with much of the world.
While many countries are lifting restrictions and trying to live with the virus, China is largely closing its international borders and closing entire cities to all but essential travel.
This includes the shipping port of Shanghai, a linchpin for global trade.
China’s biggest city entered its second month of drastic measures today after weeks of inhumane restrictions ranging from the separation of children’s parents to the building of walls around people’s homes.
The entrances to the buildings where the cases were found were sealed, with a small opening for COVID containment to pass through.
One Weibo user said, ‘This is very insulting to the rights of people inside, metal barriers are used to surround them like domestic animals.’
Another video showed residents shouting at workers from balconies as they set up fences. The workers calmed down and took him away. Other videos show people trying to pull down the fence.
‘Isn’t it a fire hazard?’ A user commented.
There are growing concerns about the impact on the Chinese economy, with a major Hong Kong equity investor warning the country is in “deep trouble”.
Weijian Shan said on Friday that the country was in the “worst situation in 30 years”.
Xi’s aide also told the private meeting: ‘While we remain confident in China’s growth and market prospects for a long time, we remain very cautious of China’s markets’, in comments reported by the FT.