Virus experts say– the city’s biggest – is necessary to stop an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant from worsening.
Lu Hongzhou, an infectious disease specialist who was previously based in Shanghai and now heads Shenzhen’s medical expert team on pandemic control, said the virus had spread widely in Shanghai and it was affecting people’s lives and creating a burden on the health system. According to Lu, the arrangement is a “good way to avoid the city coming to a complete standstill” and limit the impact of the lockdown and testing blitz. “Half of the city will go into mass testing while it will be business as usual in the other half,” Lu said.
Chen, who oversees a temporary isolation and treatment facility at the World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre, said the lockdown would curb community transmission of the virus.
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