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28 March 2022 - China Special Weapons News
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- NE China's Jilin builds 19 makeshift hospitals amid surging COVID-19 infections Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- Northeast Chinas Jilin Province has built 19 makeshift hospitals in a bid to admit surging COVID-19 patients as of Monday.
- Shanghai carries out staggered lockdown, vows to ensure sufficient daily commodities in closed-loop management Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- Shanghai carried out a staggered lockdown starting on Monday in Pudong and Puxi (divided by the Huangpu River) in turn and mass nucleic acid tests will be conducted in the city covering over 6,340 square kilometers and with a population of over 24 million to cut out hidden transmission routes in communities to curb the rapid spread of Omicron.
- China's quest for new ways to handle Omicron Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- As the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to pose risks and concerns over the social and economic costs of the protracted epidemic grow, several major Chinese cities have embarked on a quest for an improved anti-epidemic approach that can both ensure dynamic zero-COVID targets and minimize disruptions to social and economic activities, with the latest approach of phased closed-off management - instead of citywide measures - imposed by Shanghai, the country' financial hub, starting on Monday.
- Shanghai enters partial 'pause', vows sufficient daily supplies Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- Chinese financial hub Shanghai is now under the city's most stringent antivirus measures ever in a bid to stamp out the surging number of COVID-19 infections, as the ordered two-phase mass testing and sealing-off plans press the "pause" button on the usually bustling metropolis. Public transport, taxis and car hailing services have been suspended in targeted areas, while cross-river bridges and tunnels have been closed. Meanwhile, the government is ratcheting up the building of isolation sites, conducting nucleic acid tests on the city's 24 million people while guaranteeing food supplies and smooth medical channels for its residents.
- China's largest COVID-19 lockdown in two years begins in Shanghai Press TV 28 Mar 2022 -- After days of uncertainty, China began its largest lockdown in two years to conduct mass testing in a bid to contain the fresh COVID-19 outbreak in its largest city of Shanghai.
- Shanghai begins two-phase lockdown as residents complain of food shortages Radio Free Asia 28 Mar 2022 -- Shanghai's glitzy financial district on Monday entered the first part of a two-phase, citywide lockdown that will eventually affect most of the city's 26 million residents, as the municipal government struggles to implement the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s zero-COVID strategy.
- China's Largest City Put on Lockdown Due to Coronavirus Outbreak Sputnik 28 Mar 2022 -- Shanghai, with a population of 25 million, has been battling a new coronavirus outbreak for almost a month. Over the past 24 hours, China has reported more than 1,200 COVID-19 cases, its highest daily number since the start of the pandemic.
- Shanghai tightens COVID-19 control measures amid resurgence People's Daily 28 Mar 2022 -- China's economic hub Shanghai will launch a new round of nucleic acid testing across the city starting from 5 a.m. on Monday, local authorities said Sunday night.
- Chinese mainland reports 1,219 new local COVID-19 cases People's Daily 28 Mar 2022 -- The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 1,219 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission's Monday report showed.
- Another flight carrying Chinese citizens evacuated from Ukraine arrives People's Daily 28 Mar 2022 -- A temporary flight carrying Chinese citizens evacuated from Ukraine arrived in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian Province, on Monday morning.
- Large destroyer Nanchang holds live-fire cross-regional drills Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- China's first 10,000 ton-class large destroyer, the Nanchang, recently conducted a series of live-fire cross-regional drills under realistic combat scenarios, in a move that analysts said on Monday prepared the warship for some impactful far sea exercises likely to come later this year.
- NZ 'grave concern' over proposed China-Solomon Islands pact Radio Free Asia 28 Mar 2022 -- New Zealand's leader voiced grave concern Monday over a draft security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands that, if approved, could see Beijing establish a military base in the South Pacific.
- Australia Sees Solomon Islands-China Security Deal as Step to 'Restrict Movement in Pacific' Sputnik 28 Mar 2022 -- The Solomon Islands has planned an agreement with Beijing covering Chinese deployments of "police, armed police, military personnel, and other law enforcement and armed forces" to the Pacific nation. Australia and New Zealand have expressed grave concerns and said this agreement would lead to the militarisation of the region.
- 'Taiwan is not Ukraine,' linking the two is to create new crisis across Taiwan Straits: Chinese FM Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- The Taiwan question is fundamentally different from the Ukraine issue and linking the two is to intentionally create a new crisis across the Taiwan Straits, said Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at a press conference on Monday.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on March 28, 2022 PRC MofA 28 Mar 2022
- International lawyers call for suspension of extradition to Hong Kong amid crackdown Radio Free Asia 28 Mar 2022 -- The International Bar Association (IBA)'s human rights wing has called on countries to suspend any extradition agreements with Hong Kong amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent in the city.
- Hong Kong has inevitably fallen into contraction in Q1 but confident in economic outlook: HK financial secretary Global Times 28 Mar 2022 -- Hong Kong's economy is on course to contract in the first quarter of 2022, breaking a four-quarter run of recovery, but confidence in the economy remains, said Paul Chan Mo-po, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Financial Secretary, on Sunday.
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