Public health authorities still insist that even asymptomatic cases must be sent to government quarantine wards rather than isolate at home. Goats and Soda Shanghai locks down, but experts ask how else China could combat COVIDĬhina's central government has deployed 2,000 army medics to Shanghai to keep order in the medical system and help with virus prevention efforts, while 38,000 medical personnel from other provinces have streamed in to assist with mass testing and contact tracing efforts.Ĭhina's approach to containing COVID relies on testing and quickly isolating all coronavirus cases faster than the virus can spread, often in densely-crowded cities like Shanghai, a method which requires huge reserves of manpower and physical space to house infectious patients.īut the sheer number of residents who must now be isolated have strained isolation wards. The nursing home outbreak – largely unreported in China's heavily-censored domestic press – is sign of the pressure Shanghai is under as it battles its largest-ever surge of COVID-19 cases. They told us we would not be working with COVID patients, just changing bedsheets for close contacts." Battling Shanghai's largest ever surge "The employment agency said they were looking for cleaners and would pay us extra. Both employees requested anonymity because they feared legal repercussions for speaking to foreign media. "We were tricked into working here," said another orderly on the care center staff. If the rats bit our patients, they would not even be able to yell for help," she said.īut she and the approximately 40 other orderlies hired by the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care Hospital had a bigger problem on their hands: a rampant but undisclosed COVID-19 outbreak that had decimated the previous care staff and left the hospital overwhelmed and under-resourced. "Many of the residents are paralyzed elderly folk, so we had to keep watch. The first thing the orderly noticed when she arrived at the Shanghai nursing home was the rats. Neighborhoods are separated by barriers as part of lockdown measures in Shanghai to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.
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