Shanghai to mass test whole city weekly to keep Covid at bay The Star


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SHANGHAI (Bloomberg): Shanghai, which reported just 16 Covid-19 cases for Wednesday (June 15), will conduct mass testing drives every weekend until the end of July in the latest display of the lengths authorities are going to in order to maintain a zero-tolerance approach to the virus that’s disrupting its economy and leaving it isolated. A temporary lockdown will also be imposed on residential complexes where a Covid case is detected in the week leading up to the weekend testing, Zhao Dandan, an official with the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said at a briefing Wednesday. The lockdown will be lifted once...