Authorities combating the latest COVID epidemic in Shanghai have erected gates to limit the mobility of the populace.

Outside buildings where occupants are prohibited from exiting, green barricades have risen unexpectedly.

According to one tenant, a green fence emerged without reason within his locked-up enclosure three days ago.

Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as officials attempt to quell the city’s largest COVID outbreak in history.

On Chinese social media in recent days, images of workers dressed in white hazmat suits shutting the doors to the city’s apartment towers and enclosing streets with green fences have circulated.

Many of the gates, which are around two meters tall, have been constructed around buildings designated as “sealed locations” where at least one individual tested positive for COVID-19.

Everyone who resides within a “sealed region” is prohibited from leaving their houses, regardless of whether they are infected or not.

The reason officials began erecting the barriers was not immediately obvious.

According to a warning uploaded online on 23 April, one local government was implementing a “strict quarantine” in certain locations.

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Although public criticism of official policy is uncommon in China, some Shanghai citizens have expressed their dissatisfaction with the city’s policies on social media platforms in recent weeks.

Some residents of Shanghai’s restricted zones claim they have been unable to get food supplies and have been forced to wait for government-supplied vegetables, meat, and eggs.

Additionally, the city has lately implemented steps like installing electrical alarms on doors to prevent people sick from leaving and forcefully displacing inhabitants to allow for disinfection of their houses.

Additionally, Shanghai officials have ordered the transfer of all infected patients and their close connections to a government-run centralized quarantine facility.

On Sunday, Shanghai recorded 39 COVID fatalities, a record for the city, as well as almost 21,000 new infections.

Unlike many other nations, China is adopting a zero-COVID approach with the goal of entirely eliminating the virus.

While officials initially succeeded in keeping infection levels low, subsequent lockdowns have struggled to contain the virus’s more transmissible newer forms.

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