The Orwellian horror scenes[/B] playing out in Shanghai since March 28 are causing global concern and suspicion.
In the city centre, residents are protesting that five buildings have been turned into quarantine centres for coronavirus patients[/B] Police in protective uniforms are making violent arrests.
"We don't understand what we are seeing in Shanghai. They are acting as if this is the first time they are dealing with the pandemic. There is the assumption that they may have found something they haven't told us," Panagis Galiatsatos, a professor of pulmonology at Johns Hopkins University, told MEGA.
Shanghai has the lion's share of daily coronavirus cases across China. In the last 24 hours, 24,791 asymptomatic and 3,896 symptomatic patients were recorded across the country. Of these, 19,923 asymptomatic and 3,590 symptomatic are in Shanghai alone.
Virus carriers are isolated in specially designed rooms where more than 200 people sleep on cots and mattresses and reportedly share just four toilets.
Since yesterday, Friday, after Shanghai, the city of Zhengzhou in central China, a major economic and industrial zone, and the northern city of Xi'an have been placed under a strict lockdown.
In addition, there is growing concern about the economic impact of the strict lockdown in Shanghai. Shortages in the global market may begin to be felt in the coming weeks, as one by one China's major financial and industrial centers have been paralyzed since the end of March.
Source: in.gr
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