Only some parents will be allowed to remain at home with their COVID-infected children during Shanghai's lockdown, officials said
The announcement came as China's largest city remained in lockdown and conducted more mass testing Wednesday following another jump in new cases.
Her announcement followed Chinese state media reports a day earlier that an isolation site set up at the Shanghai New International Expo Center was accepting children with parents. The city has opened sprawling isolation centers for tens of thousands of people to isolate the growing number of positive cases.
The latest cases bring Shanghai's total to around 90,000 in an outbreak that began last month. No deaths have been ascribed to the outbreak driven by the omicron BA.2 variant, which is much more infectious but also less lethal than the previous delta strain. Two deaths have been reported in another ongoing outbreak in Jilin province in China's northeast.
While some residents are receiving food supplies from their district government, she said that “a kind of black market” has developed charging “rocket-high prices” for fruits and vegetables. Beijing is also tightening measures after 11 cases were detected in the Chinese capital in recent days.
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