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Shanghai tightens screw: Green metal fences erected around infected apartment blocks | Abroad | DR Barely two meter high metal fences around residential properties are the authorities' latest attempt to curb the infection in Shanghai. Then it was extended indefinitely. And now green metal fences have appeared in front of the Chinese city of Shanghai, where millions of have been sitting for almost a month. This is what DR's journalist in China, Philip Roin, who lives in Shanghai and has been in solitary confinement for 25 days so far, says. 85 meters high. They have come up around the city, and have closed these residential blocks inside. Before, you could go out on the street, but now they are set up in a way so that those who could go out at night and in the evening and talk to their neighbors can no longer get out. Philip Roin snuck in earlier day out of his apartment to document the green fences. You can see a bit of that in the video here: Pictures of workers in protective suits who were in the process of erecting the fences have spread on Chinese social over the weekend. In the pictures you can see how the fences surround certain buildings while it in other cases it is set up as cages in front of the front doors with only a few meters of space in the "cage". China has a zero-covid policy, which means that it wants to completely eradicate the coronavirus, and therefore declining is not enough to put an end to the shutdown. The infection must be completely eradicated. Since March 28, large parts of the Chinese city of Shanghai have been subject to a strict closure. Shanghai, which is China's financial capital, houses 25 million inhabitants and is one of China's richest cities. major outbreaks with the coronavirus variant omikron, it sounded at the time from the city government. China, which has a zero tolerance policy against the coronavirus, experienced at that time the highest infection rates since the beginning of the pandemic. The authorities have responded by urging the population to "control their desire for freedom" until the outbreak of the infection has been overcome. hard isolation. ”However, there is nothing in what comes from Shanghai's top management that states that such“ hard isolation ”means, to be fenced, says Philip Roin.- There are some at the local authorities who have got this idea, he says and continues: - I think it looks like these fences are a sign that do something to do something but that it is not very effective. They are told that they have to do something, and then this is something you can touch and feel. The virus is this invisible enemy that one tries to fight with physical fences, which it can be difficult to see the logical in. According to Philip Roin, it is also unclear exactly what triggers an enclosure, as several properties, where there are, has not been fenced in while others are. Although it may seem violent, even by Chinese standards, in Shanghai people react very differently to having been fenced in by their own local government, he says. - I was out talking to a resident earlier, who said that because it was because of the virus, then it was okay. But there are also others who are tense and furious, partly because the fences pose a fire hazard, and they have a hard time seeing the rationale in it, he says and continues: - And then it's just another screw on the screw clamp, which this isolation is, and we still do not know how long it will last. In the last month, they have just taken bite by bite for bite, and this is just another bite in a row. Shanghai has been using coronavirus lately. right now, tough funds are being used to curb rising .In the capital, Beijing, the first of three rounds of mass testing of the city's largest district, Chayoang District, which houses nearly 3.5 million people, has begun today. This is happening after there has been an increase in recent days. The prospect of mass tests has caused the residents of Chayoang to flock to the locals for the most important necessities in preparation for a possible upcoming shutdown, writes the news agency Reuters. , that in Beijing may consider introducing a forced isolation style with that in Shanghai, local sources tell the news agency.