Following a swift change in its COVID-19 policy, China’s major cities turned into ghost towns overnight as the population battled widespread infection and medical supply crunches. Shanghai-based Singaporean Ye Jiayi gives us an inside look at the situation on the ground.
Frequent mass testing would be scrapped for most of the general population, and people with mild infections would be able toThis was a major move, especially for residents who had spent the last three years living under the uncertainty of havingAlthough China’s National Health Commission had made the announcement, things at the provincial level took a few days to be updated.
I shouldn’t have worried. In a matter of days, Shanghai stopped the tracking of health codes entirely. After three long years of scanning QR codes before stepping into any building, establishment or even a taxi, residents could now move around freely.China has loosened COVID-19 restrictions, after nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus. WIDESPREAD INFECTION
By the following week, only a handful of people were in the office – about three-quarters of our workforce were home and sick. Companies across Shanghai were experiencing the same phenomenon.as people recovered from COVID-19 at home. Restaurants were deserted, and shops were closed because of the manpower crunch. Everyone was ill.
The supply shortage was so bad that tech giant Tencent launched a Pandemic Mutual Aid mini app within WeChat to allow users to put up location-based posts about medication they urgently needed. Users who could spare medicines could choose to respond to these requests through the app.were completely overwhelmed. A friend’s wife was due to give birth in two weeks when a sudden COVID-19 infection led to irregularities in the baby’s heartbeat.
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