Medics or volunteers wearing the white hazmat suit are nicknamed Big White. It is part of the secondary protection gear for those who make close contact with suspected or at-risk groups, or stay indoors with them for a long time. Secondary protection gear includes six items:...

More than 50 youth from the city and neighboring provinces have been staying on Chongming Island since March to fight the pandemic in their own special way — flying 60 drones that spray fungicides and insecticides to nurture crops. They reside in a company dormitory, inspect...

One of the stories to emerge from the Shanghai lockdown is that of volunteers in hazmat suits being applauded and complimented, and, in some cases, confronted with hostility. As the city marked more than a month of lockdown, people in white suits are a major sight...

What sectors are prioritized in terms of applying for production resumption? A: Currently, applications for production resumption are primarily accepted from companies in five sectors: those ensuring the city’s normal operations, anti-pandemic supplies, important function guarantee, continuous production and supporting infrastructure. The local government is also...

Shanghai’s COVID-19 infections found during the community screening grew to 73 on Monday, while the total number of daily infections kept dropping by over 20 percent to 5,669. The “screening among high-risk groups” covers people in controlled areas, precautionary areas, those who go to fever clinics...

Courier companies in Qingpu District are gradually resuming services disrupted by the COVID-19 resurgence, as Shanghai has started issuing traffic permits for the delivery of important supplies. The suburban district is home to China’s express delivery giants such as Deppon, SF Express, YTO, ZTO Express, STO...

Shanghai’s ongoing disinfection campaign has covered all the 13,000-odd residential compounds along with the nearly a million online delivery parcels piled up at the gates of local communities every day. About 160,000 times of disinfection are conducted daily across about 140 million square meters of the...

Four officials and the director of a senior home in Putuo District have been held accountable for an incident in which an elderly citizen, who was considered “dead,” was transferred to a funeral parlor. The Shanghai Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced yesterday afternoon that...