Shanghai has decided to postpone local high school and college entrance exams for about one month as the city enters a vital phase in its fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, which local students and teachers said was expected and understandable.
A day after a CPC top leadership meeting warned against attempts to distort, question or dismiss China s anti-COVID policy, Shanghai on Friday vowed to stick to the dynamic zero-COVID strategy and push forward the decisive battle against the epidemic.
After over a month of decisive and tough battle against Omicron, Shanghai has been recording declining numbers of new infections at the community level in recent days. The city reported 34 new infections at the community level on Wednesday - the lowest since May 1 - and its daily new case tally continued declining below 5,000, data showed on Thursday. With thousands of key enterprises resuming production, experts forecast that the city will gradually lift the lockdowns by the end of May.
The number of Shanghai s daily new COVID-19 cases may peak this week and the fresh wave may finish as early as the end of next month, experts said, although China s financial hub reported a record high number of daily new infections on Thursday, bringing the total infections in Shanghai to more than 250,000 since March.
The COVID-19 epidemic situation in Northeast China s Jilin Province, which has reported more than 60,000 positive cases in the fresh wave, is still worsening despite some positive signs of decline in parts of its capital Changchun and nearby city Jilin.