Covid-19: Shanghai races to build hundreds of thousands of isolation beds


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SHANGHAI (BLOOMBERG) - Shanghai is transforming conference centres and conscripting neighbouring provinces to create isolation facilities for hundreds of thousands of people, a sign of its commitment to a zero tolerance approach to Covid-19 amid China's worst outbreak to date. The Chinese financial hub is adding tens of thousands of beds to what are already some of the world's biggest isolation sites as it sticks to a policy of quarantining all those positive for the virus, regardless of severity, plus everyone they interacted with while infected. Nearly 150,000 people have been identified as close contacts and put into isolation. More...