Green fences seal entrances to shops and housing units along a street, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China, on April 24, 2022.An article by a Chinese-American public health expert calling for Beijing to change its zero-Covid policies has been circulating widely on Chinese social media.
He also said the city should stock up on Pfizer's pill Paxlovid to treat patients, especially the elderly. But after more than a month of lockdown, Shanghai was still reporting thousands of cases daily, though around 95 per cent were asymptomatic cases. In the post, Miao said he would "slit his wrist" if China managed to eliminate all Covid-19 cases because even if it could miraculously weed out Omicron there would still be other variants.
"Since the virus can be spread by aerosol, if a person in the line is a positive case, the one who [was swabbed] afterwards would likely be infected. "Residents buy food via online platforms and the food is distributed by neighbourhood committees, volunteers and deliverers. These people have not undergone serious disinfection training and many of them were infected. They became the main source of infection and further spread the virus," he wrote.