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Several large Chinese cities including Shanghai are rolling out new mass testing or extending lockdowns on millions of residents to counter new clusters of COVID-19 infections, with some measures being criticised on the internet.

China has reported an average of around 390 local daily infections in the seven days ending on Sunday, higher than about 340 seven days earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on official data as of Monday.

“There is still an epidemic risk at the community level so far,” the city government said in a statement. In the northwestern city of Lanzhou, a lockdown in four major districts with around 3 million residents that started last week has been extended to July 24.

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Regardless of vaccination status transmission and hospitalisation is still possible. Exactly why their zero covid policy won't work.

Communism at its peak

Ridiculous in the extreme!

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