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Mamilioni ya wakazi wa Shanghai Nchini China wamefanyiwa vipimo vya UVIKO-19 kutokana na kusambaa kwa Virusi vya Omicron na ikiwa maambukizi yatakuwa mengi kuna uwezekano wa kutolewa amri ya kutotoka nje bila sababu za msingi.
Mkakati wa China ni kuhakikisha hakuna maambukizi kabisa, baadhi ya miji mikubwa pia imekumbwa na maambukizi hayo ikiwemo Beijing, Dalian na Xi'an.
Source: CNN
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Shanghai fears new lockdown as millions test for Covid amid sweltering heat
Millions of Shanghai residents braved sweltering heat Tuesday to wait in line for compulsory Covid tests, as growing case numbers and the emergence of a highly infectious Omicron subvariant spurred new fears of a return to mass lockdown.
Shanghai authorities have ordered the majority of the city's 16 districts to undergo two rounds of testing from Tuesday to Thursday, after a case of the new BA.5.2.1 subvariant was detected in the community on July 8.
The highly transmissible BA.5 variant is spreading rapidly worldwide and is seen as a great threat by authorities in China -- the last major country adhering to a stringent zero-Covid strategy.
A Shanghai resident peeks through an opening in the barricade surrounding a neighborhood placed under Covid-19 lockdown on July 10.
New Omicron subvariants have been reported in several Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing, the northeastern port city of Dalian, and the central city of Xi'an, which was shut down for seven days over the outbreak.
The rising cases -- and accompanying restrictions -- come as a scorching heatwave sweeps the country. In Shanghai, authorities raised the highest-level red alert Sunday as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
The stifling heat has made mass testing all the more excruciating for residents -- some of whom have to queue for hours -- and for Covid workers, who are covered head to toe in airtight PPE equipment.
