Shanghai discharges thousands of patients and boosts supplies amid COVID-19 wave

 
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More than 11,000 recovered COVID-19 patients were discharged from a makeshift hospital on Sunday in Shanghai where a lockdown has severely restricted movement.
"We hope their family and community will not worry about them or discriminate against them," said Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Health Commission.
China's largest city of 26 million people reported 1006 confirmed infections and nearly 24,000 asymptomatic cases in the last 24 hours.
 
Shanghai has been under lockdown since March 28, and authorities said on Saturday that the strict measures would be lifted in areas with no new cases in the last 14 days following another round of mass testing.
The US on Saturday advised its citizens to reconsider travelling to China due to "arbitrary enforcement" of local laws and COVID-19 restrictions, particularly in Hong Kong, Jilin province and Shanghai.
US officials cited a risk of "parents and children being separated."
 
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in response that China was "strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the US side's groundless accusation against China's epidemic response."
"It should be pointed out that China's anti-epidemic policies are science-based and effective, and we are fully confident that Shanghai and other places in China will prevail over the new wave of the epidemic," said Mr Zhao.
Meanwhile, Shanghai authorities said that they have secured daily supplies for residents from online platforms, according to state-owned newspaper Global Times, following complaints about deliveries of food and other basic necessities as the lockdown enters its third week.
Residents have resorted to group buying of groceries because they are not allowed to leave their buildings. Posts circulating on social media platforms such as Weibo also show that some residents have not been able to have their food orders delivered, while others posted online that they're running out of food.
 
Source:AP