For the most part, Beijing’s residents are confident that the restrictions that have paralyzed Shanghai for six weeks are simply unthinkable in the capital
After a Thursday meeting, the Communist Party’s ruling Politburo issued a statement redoubling its commitment to strict pandemic controls. “We won the battle in Wuhan, and we will surely be able to win the battle in Shanghai,” the Politburo said, drawing a comparison between the Chinese financial capital hardest hit by the current outbreak and the city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged more than two years ago.
Beijing authorities on Saturday began a new round of mass testing in five districts, as well as areas that have reported positive tests since April 25.Beijing, meantime, has rolled a steady drumbeat of tightening measures in recent weeks that have prompted a small number of residents to flee the city and many others to restock their pantries.
Even so, she warned, “the risk that new outbreaks or a new variant will result in another wave of lockdowns in the future is still there, and will be until China makes a more fundamental shift in its Covid policies.” A negative Covid result from within the prior 48 hours had already been needed to enter many venues. Since Thursday, the list of activities requiring a negative test was expanded to include getting married, Beijing’s Civil Affairs Bureau said in an announcement posted on its website.
“I don’t think Beijing will repeat what’s happening in Shanghai, where officials didn’t control Covid properly in the early stages,” said Mr. Zhou, who declined to give his full name. “Beijing is the capital city, after all.” “I’m relatively optimistic about the current situation in Beijing,” he said, though he predicted it would take several years before the virus is a thing of the past. “It’s up to officials to make the policies. I trust the government and don’t think there will be a citywide lockdown.”
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