Tomorrow morning they're testing the whole 26mio people in Shanghai (me and my family included!) in a single morning 😲 Starts at 5am and goal is for everyone to be tested by noon. Results expected the same evening around 7pm.— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 3, 2022
You fill your personal info into an web app and it generates a QR code. The code is scanned during testing. Results can be viewed on the app.
No official words on what happens to people who have tested positive. The policy seems to be changing all the time. It used mandatory quarantine in hospital/quarantine center but I've been hearing about asymptomatic cases quarantined at home(Not sure if true or not). What is certain is additional lockdown and testing for a certain radius around you. (Used to include contact tracing, but the city's been on lockdown for half a month there really isn't any movement to be traced now)
That makes sense. But once this is done is there a general expectation things will open up again? Like this is happening in place of continuing lockdowns?
This round of lockdown is supposed to end at 5th. But typically a new round of lockdown would be announced before or shortly after the end of the last one.
Rumor is this is going to be the last mass test before opening up and the officials were given an open up deadline of 6PM April 5th by the central gov. (Sure looks like it, friend of mine who lives near the airport has been seeing loads military transport aircrafts landing one after another yesterday) We'll see if the rumor is true in 13 hours.
I don't really see why they would keep doing mass tests unless they kept discovering new cases. I'm sure the average person in Shanghai has been tested for at least 6 times in the past 2 weeks at this point.
As far as I know, if you test positive right now, you'll be taken to a big quarantine center where you'll stay until you can test negative twice. Like AlyxMS said, the policies are all over the place - I also heard talk about letting asymptomatic cases being allowed to quarantine at home but since then all the talk has been about the big centralized quarantine halls.
If you're interested, there was a foreign journalist called Emma Leaning I think who tested positive and was tweeting about her experience in centralized quarantine.
How will they report your results to you and did they say what will happen if you test positive?
Not shthrow, but can answer your question.
You fill your personal info into an web app and it generates a QR code. The code is scanned during testing. Results can be viewed on the app.
No official words on what happens to people who have tested positive. The policy seems to be changing all the time. It used mandatory quarantine in hospital/quarantine center but I've been hearing about asymptomatic cases quarantined at home(Not sure if true or not). What is certain is additional lockdown and testing for a certain radius around you. (Used to include contact tracing, but the city's been on lockdown for half a month there really isn't any movement to be traced now)
That makes sense. But once this is done is there a general expectation things will open up again? Like this is happening in place of continuing lockdowns?
This round of lockdown is supposed to end at 5th. But typically a new round of lockdown would be announced before or shortly after the end of the last one.
Rumor is this is going to be the last mass test before opening up and the officials were given an open up deadline of 6PM April 5th by the central gov. (Sure looks like it, friend of mine who lives near the airport has been seeing loads military transport aircrafts landing one after another yesterday) We'll see if the rumor is true in 13 hours.
I don't really see why they would keep doing mass tests unless they kept discovering new cases. I'm sure the average person in Shanghai has been tested for at least 6 times in the past 2 weeks at this point.
I got my results via one of the centralized apps.
As far as I know, if you test positive right now, you'll be taken to a big quarantine center where you'll stay until you can test negative twice. Like AlyxMS said, the policies are all over the place - I also heard talk about letting asymptomatic cases being allowed to quarantine at home but since then all the talk has been about the big centralized quarantine halls.
If you're interested, there was a foreign journalist called Emma Leaning I think who tested positive and was tweeting about her experience in centralized quarantine.