Since March 2022, the number of new coronavirus infections in Shanghai has continued to rise, eventually surpassing Jilin Province to become the most severely affected area in the country. People all over the country are concerned about a question: How long will it take for the “City of Magic” to quell the epidemic?
On April 17, there were still more than 20,000 positive cases of the novel coronavirus in Shanghai. However, there were signs that the Shanghai was on the right track. The vast majority of infection cases were found in isolation and control. Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases outside quarantine areas showed a downward trend.
In fact, on April 16, 2022, Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice Premier of the State Council, stated in an interview that Shanghai had made some progress with initial achievements. The reproduction number has dropped from 2.27 to 1.23. Wang Guiqiang, an expert of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, former chairman of Chinese Society of Infectious Diseases of the Chinese Medical Association, and director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peking University First Hospital, believed that this is a sign that Shanghai has brought the current epidemic under control.