The conditions in Shanghai after the strict lockdown were described by the Consul General of Greece in Shanghai, Vassilis Konyakos.
Speaking on SKY TV, Konyakos stressed that "no one can walk the streets," and spoke of the transfer of even asymptomatic patients to isolation centers, as well as the forcible separation of children from their parents.
Describing daily life in the city, Konyakos explained that tests, whether self or PCR, are compulsory every day and are organised by the commissions in the districts.
"If someone has symptoms, they are taken to a hospital. Asymptomatic ones are taken to the makeshift health exclusion centres. You stay in these centres for at least 14 days or until you get two negative consecutive tests," he says.
However, the protocol is particularly strict for close contacts of cases, who are also taken to isolation centres for 14 days and then put under house arrest for seven more days.
As he explains, China has chosen a dynamic zero case policy and the legitimacy of this policy is that it has very low numbers of deaths from Covid. "With 300,000 cases in a population of 26 million, not a single death has been recorded."
Regarding cases of children forced to be separated from their children, the Consul General of Greece in Shanghai stresses that "when the children are positive and the parents are negative, the authorities allow one of them to accompany the minor provided that they accept all the consequences of this choice." However, things are more complicated when the parents are positive and the children are negative because they have to appoint someone to exercise temporary custody and it is difficult.
Regarding the daily needs of citizens, since no one is allowed to go out, he says that there are several problems as basic shopping needs are served by group orders at the apartment complex level. "This is not easy for 26 million people to pick up a bag of food every day and see it outside their door."
Asked about businesses operating in Shanghai, he points out that "there are nodal businesses that continue to operate, but they are few. In these, employees live, work and sleep in their workplace."
Finally, Mr. Konyakos puts an end to the scenarios circulating that want something else to happen in the country, noting that all this belongs to the "realm of conspiracy."
Source: Proto Thema
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