Shanghai will mass-check the entire city every week to keep COVID at bay

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Shanghai, which reported just 16 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, will conduct mass testing every weekend until the end of July in the latest demonstration of how long the government will do to adhere to the country’s zero-tolerance system for the virus.

A transitional lockdown will also be imposed on residential complexes where a case of COVID-19 is detected in the week leading up to the weekend’s testing, Zhao Dandan, an official with the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said at a briefing on Wednesday. it will be lifted once the compound has been tested, he said.

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