The city’s 25 million residents are now entering a phased easing of lockdown after two weeks of a citywide order to stay at home to curb what has been China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since Wuhan.
A worker in a protective suit rests on a street during the lockdown in Shanghai on April 16. The short statement issued late last week by the Health Commission bureau of Shanghai’s Hongkou district did not explain how its employee Qian Wenxiong died. It didn’t need to.
After each incident, Chinese official media spring into action. The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand. The original story of officials “quitting” is then debunked as rumor.
China’s top leaders, apparently aware that a loss of morale in Shanghai could undermine its insistence on a zero-covid policy, often speak of the need for residents and officials to steel themselves against the temptation to give in. Shanghai has brought home how difficult it is to stick with zero-covid without triggering widespread disruptions to daily lives. But that is the fine line Xi has told local officials to walk, declaring the overall policy a success that reflects the advantages of China’s political system.Defenders of the zero-covid policy see Shanghai’s missteps as the fault of uncertainty and mismanagement. For them, the blame lies with local officials for failing to prepare or lock down quickly enough.
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