Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food

Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by blablablub on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:15PM (#30980649)

China distinguishes between asymptomatic and "confirmed" cases. In the last 10 days there were around 140k asymptomatic cases - those are shipped to the makeshift hospitals "quarantine centers" you see on TV.

During the same time there are around 5k cases with symptoms, as i understand all confirmed with a chest x-ray scan(?). Those go into the covid hospitals, which are now overflowing.

Do all of those need to go to a hospital? I don't know. But on the pictures you see mostly elderly people, and the vaccination rate among those is about as high as in HK

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Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by rdtwo on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:40PM (#30981484)

Considering how many people were tested a bunch of those could just be false positives. They did like 100m tests or something crazy

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Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by blablablub on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:15AM (#30985292)

No they didn't. Shanghai's testing capacity is around 2m/day.

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Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by rdtwo on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:09AM (#30988141)

I thought they tested everyone in the city like 4 times.

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