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Trapped in Shanghai

Construction of the city’s largest quarantine center in the Hongqiao National Convention & Exhibition Center: About 40,000 people who tested positive will soon be accommodated here.
Covid cases continue to rise in Shanghai. Foreigners in the city are growing increasingly nervous. Mainly because they cannot leave the city. And for fear of being sent to a quarantine center. The city hastily expands its isolation capacity. This, too, is a sign that the situation will not improve any time soon.
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Christiane Kühl
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There is no end in sight to the tough Covid measures in Shanghai. On Saturday, authorities indicated that they would partially reopen the first city districts. On one condition: Not a single resident was allowed to be tested Covid for corona in the past 14 days. But for the time being, nothing came of it. The number of cases continues to rise unabated. On Sunday, 24,943 new infections were registered. A week ago, there were fewer than 10,000 a day. Meanwhile, the number of cases with symptoms is also rising. On Sunday, there were over a thousand, three times as many as on Thursday.

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