Shanghai to mass test whole city weekly to keep Covid at bay

Residents wearing face masks stand in line for Covid-19 tests at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing on, June 16, 2022. - AP

SHANGHAI (Bloomberg): Shanghai, which reported just 16 Covid-19 cases for Wednesday (June 15), will conduct mass testing drives every weekend until the end of July in the latest display of the lengths authorities are going to in order to maintain a zero-tolerance approach to the virus that’s disrupting its economy and leaving it isolated.

A temporary lockdown will also be imposed on residential complexes where a Covid case is detected in the week leading up to the weekend testing, Zhao Dandan, an official with the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said at a briefing Wednesday. The lockdown will be lifted once everyone in the compound has been tested, he said.