April 5, 2022

With 38,000-plus-member medical support teams from 15 Chinese regions rushing into the city, Shanghai has stepped up efforts in the most arduous battle against one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks since Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019, with lessons and improvements over past two years.

With stronger virus detection means, more adequate personnel and equipment, and increasingly pragmatic and dynamic control measures, can Shanghai fight against the more concealed COVID variant Omicron and emerge more resilient from the early dark hours in Wuhan?

Medical experts believe the latest outbreak in Shanghai is larger in scale than in Wuhan in early 2020 but less severe and with less direct losses given increased knowledge in the virus and accumulated experience in mobilizing resources and improved diagnosis capacity and more dynamic and targeted treatment methods.  

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