'We'll have to stay at the dormitory first, then come back to work after the lockdown is lifted,' said a migrant worker surnamed Wu, who arrived in Beijing on Wednesday after a 10-hour train journey with a friend:
A woman in quarantine sits on her roof balcony, amid Covid-19 full lockdown of the city in Shanghai, China, 27 April 2022.China's capital Beijing closed some public spaces and stepped up checks at others on Thursday, as most of the city's 22 million residents embarked on more COVID-19 mass testing aimed at averting a Shanghai-like lockdown.
Since 22 April, Beijing has found over 160 cases, more than half in Chaoyang, the city's most populous district known for its night life, malls and embassies.When the outbreak in Shanghai began, new infections were under 100 a day between the first of March and the tenth, before doubling and then surging to more than 700 by 20 March.
So far, Beijing has tried to avoid disrupting its economy, allowing residents to go to work even as they get tested, unless infections are found and localised lockdowns are required. The two were to begin work in a canteen of the Beijing University of Technology, but that did not happen after residential compounds next to the university went into a lockdown.
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