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Plans and Lists of Three Areas to Be Released

2022年04月11日 13:43
 

At the press conference on COVID-19 prevention and control in Shanghai held on the morning of April 11, Mr. Gu Honghui, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government and Director of the Office of Shanghai Municipal Leading Group on Preventing and Controlling COVID-19, briefed on another round of city-wide PCR testing as well as the designation of “Three Areas”, i.e., locked-down areas, managed and controlled areas and precautionary areas, across Shanghai.

 

Shanghai underwent another round of PCR testing these two days. As of 08:00 on April 11, we have sampled 25.12 million people and completed the testing of 21.51 million people. Among them, 25,996 people returned abnormal results. The review of some people testing positive in the mix sampling is still underway.


According to the regulations of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, we will take the area-specific and classified approach for differentiated management in view the actual situation in Shanghai, i.e., the city will be divided into the locked-down areas, managed and controlled areas and precautionary areas.


Locked-down areas refer to the residential compounds, natural villages, companies or places where positive cases are found in the last 7 days. In the areas, the people will undergo the 7-day locked-down management + 7-day home-based health monitoring. During the 7-day locked-down management, the areas will be closed, and the people should stay inside and be provided with door-to-door services.

If there is no newly-added positive case in the 7-day locked-down management, the 7-day home-based health monitoring will be followed, during which the residents may not go outside the residential compounds and gathering is prohibited. If no new positive cases are added during both 7-day locked-down management and 7-day home-based health monitoring while all people in the areas tested negative in PCR test on the 13th day, the areas will be lifted from lock-down and changed to the precautionary areas.

 

If new positive cases reemerge during the 7-day locked-down management, the buildings where the cases are found will undergo another 14-day locked-down management. Areas other than the buildings with positive cases will be followed with 7-day home-based health monitoring. If there is new positive case found during the home-based health monitoring, the follow-up measures will be placed according to the epidemiological investigation and comprehensive evaluation.

 

Managed and controlled areas refer to the residential compounds, natural villages, companies or places where no positive cases are found in the last 7 days. In the areas, the 7-day home-based health monitoring will be implemented. The people there may not go outside the residential compounds and gathering is prohibited. In principle, people in the managed and controlled areas should still stay inside. If personal protection can be ensured, each household may go outside orderly each day in the staggered time to pick up delivered goods in the designated areas in the compounds or in a non-contact method. For such pick-up of delivery, the number of people will be controlled while the zone will be designated in advance.  

 

The managed and controlled areas will be updated to the locked-down ones with corresponding measures put in place if any new positive case is found in the 7-day home-based health monitoring. If no new positive cases are added during the 7-day home-based health monitoring and all people in the areas tested negative in PCR test on the 6th day, the areas will be lifted from management and control and changed to the precautionary areas.


If people in the locked-down and managed and controlled areas need to go outside due to illness, they should ensure the personal protection before seeking medical advice in the closed loop system after being approved by their communities.

 

Precautionary areas refer to those residential compounds, natural villages, companies, or places where no positive cases were found in the past 14 days. In these areas, measures implemented include “strengthening the control at the social level and strictly limiting the size of gatherings”. The flow of people must be reduced, and gathering must be avoided. In view of the current COVID-19 development across the city, people in the precautionary areas may carry out activities appropriately within the boundaries of their sub-districts or towns in principle and must not go to the locked-down areas or managed and controlled areas.

If a positive case occurs in the precautionary areas, it will be changed to the locked-down areas. It is therefore important that everyone actively cooperates in the prevention and control of COVID-19, so that the whole community will not be affected by individual violations of the disease prevention regulations of "Three Areas". If one people is infected, the whole community will be locked down again.

 

At present, according to the preliminary screening results and risk assessment, all districts have drawn up the lists of their first “Three Areas”. Among them, 7,624 are locked-down areas, 2,460 are managed and controlled areas and 7,565 are precautionary areas. After the press conference held on April 11, each district will gradually announce its list of the first "Three Area", and the subsequent lists will be drawn up and announced in time.

The most crucial moment has arrived for Shanghai to fight against COVID-19. Next, we will continue to strictly implement various prevention and control measures. We will step up our efforts to analyze and assess the development of disease, implement area-specific and classified management, and adjust the “Three Areas” dynamically, so as to minimize the impacts of disease on our people’s lives.

We call on everyone in the city to hang on there and cooperate with the COIVD-19 containment across Shanghai. Everyone’s self-discipline, participation, sense of responsibility and contribution is required to make their residential compounds “COVID-free”, and thus establish a solid line of defense against the disease underpinned by joint prevention and control and society-wide efforts.