compound, facilitating food deliveries, and managing our health information. in addition to very regular pcr tests we are required to do rapid antigen tests each day. we then upload results to the government and take a screen shot and picture of the test and share it publicly with our community group chat so that all our neighbors can see we re negative. the community group chats can serve as a helpful way to source food but also as a space to call out neighbors. sometimes becoming a witch hunt to kick out positive cases and have them sent to quarantine centers. it has become quite common for local authorities basically to say we have a war time situation and therefore we have to apply emergency measures and therefore you have to simply follow orders. reporter: it reminds some residents of the cultural revolution from the 60s and 70s a painful era of political and social chaos sparked by extreme policies.
little gate keepers, determining who goes in and out of each compound, facilitating food deliveries and managing our health information. in addition to very regular pcr tests, each day we re also required to do rapid antigen tests. we then upload the results to this government app and we take a screen shot of that and a picture of the test and we share it publicly with our community group chat so that all our neighbors can see we re negative. the community group chats serve as a helpful way to source food but also as a space to call out neighbors, sometimes becoming a witch hunt to kick out positive cases and have them sent to quarantine centers. it has become quite common for local authorities to say we have a wartime situation and therefore we have to apply emergency measures and therefore you have to simply follow orders. reporter: reminds some residents of the cultural
to oversee major outbreaks. in shanghai, that means working with the city s most senior official. communist party secretary chong. their orders are carried out by the municipal government and coordinated at local levels with thousands of communities. those local workers are literal gate keepers, determining who goes in and out of each compound, facilitating food deliveries and managing our health information. in addition to very regular pcr tests, each day, we re also required to do rapid antigen tests. we then upload the results to this government app and take a screen shot of that and a picture of the test and share it publicly with our community group chat so all our neighbors can see we re negative. the group chats can serve as a helpful way to source food, but always as a place to call out neighbors. sometimes becoming a witch hunt to kick out positive cases and
those local people are gate keepers, determining who goes in and out of each compound. in addition to very regular pcr tests, etach day we re required to do rapid antigen tests and then upload the results to this government app and take a screen shot of that and a picture of the test and share it publically with our community group chat. this can serve as a helpful way to source food but also a space to call out neighbors, sometimes becoming a witch hunt to call out positive neighbors. it is saying we have a wartime situation and therefore we have to apply emergency measures and, therefore, you have to simply follow orders. reporter: it reminds some residents of the cultural revolution from the 60s and
vice premier to over see major out breaks. that means working with the most senior official. communist party secretary. orders are carried out by the government. which runs the quarantine centers and coordinated at local levels with thousands of communities. those local workers are literal gate keepers determining who goes in and out of each compound. facilitating food deliveries and managing health information. in addition to very regular pcr tests, each day we re required to do rapid antigen tests. up load the results to this government app. and then we take a screen shot of that and a picture of the test. and we share it publicly with our community group chat. so that all the neighbors can see we re negative. the commune group chat can serves a helpful way to source food and a space to call out neighbors. sometimes becoming a witch hunt to kick out positive cases and have them sent to quarantine