Shanghai officials on May 17 said they achieved zero infections outside quarantine zones for three consecutive days, marking a long-awaited milestone for a city that has been in lockdown for over seven weeks, though most residents are still confined to their homes.
Zhao Dandan, a deputy director of the Shanghai health Commission, said at a May 17 press conference that all 16 districts in Shanghai had achieved “social dynamic zero-COVID” for three consecutive days. “Social dynamic Zero-COVID” means all infections were reported in centralized quarantine facilities or residential communities under lockdown.
As of May 18, an estimated 790,000 people are still in sealed-off areas, local officials said, where people are subjected to the strictest form of lockdown. The officials didn’t say how many people were in isolation centers….
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