When will the Shanghai epidemic end in 2022 and return to normal? Can May Day end and return to normal? Attached the latest news

Recently, the number of new local cases and asymptomatic infections reported daily in Shanghai has surged, mainly due to local zoning lockdowns and nucleic acid testing. As for the current local epidemic in Shanghai, local residents most hope to return to normal as soon as possible. So when will the Shanghai epidemic end in 2022 and return to normal? Can May Day end and return to normal? The latest news is as follows:

1. When will the Shanghai epidemic end in 2022 and return to normal?

This round of local epidemic in Shanghai is expected to end and return to normal by the end of April at the latest. Although there were thousands of asymptomatic infections in Shanghai every day during the period at the end of March, they were all discovered through nucleic acid testing during the lockdown. At present, Shanghai has also adopted the most stringent epidemic prevention measures, sealing off Pudong and Puxi, so as to limit the flow of people. Before the lockdown, some people left Shanghai, resulting in new cases in many places. Such control will reduce infections outside the province. Here are some conditions for the end of the Shanghai epidemic:

1. Condition 1 for Shanghai to end the epidemic and return to normal: achieving zero social contact

On March 30, the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee held a meeting to study and deploy key tasks for epidemic prevention and control, requiring that the spread of the epidemic be curbed as soon as possible and that social zero-case infection be achieved as soon as possible. When Shanghai achieves zero social contact, it means the end of the epidemic is not far away, and the good news of lifting the lockdown will gradually come.

2. Shanghai epidemic ends and normal conditions are restored: dynamic zero clearance is achieved

Dynamic zeroing is the general policy for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in my country. It refers to the integration of comprehensive prevention and control measures taken by our country in the current situation, when local cases appear, in order to quickly eradicate the epidemic. However, to achieve dynamic zero-COVID, it is necessary to discover and manage every infected person, including asymptomatic ones. There is indeed a challenge in detecting asymptomatic infections.

2. Will the 2022 Shanghai epidemic end on May 1st and return to normal?

Shanghai should be able to return to normal before May Day, but the specific situation will depend on the epidemic situation. Because the epidemic in Shanghai this time is indeed quite serious. Compared with the new coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, the scale of this epidemic in Shanghai is much larger. Moreover, the Omicron BA.2. strain has caused a large number of asymptomatic infections, which will be a challenge for Shanghai in epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, we also hope that local residents will cooperate in epidemic prevention and control so that the epidemic can be controlled, end it as soon as possible and return to normal. The complete end of the epidemic in Shanghai requires the following three conditions to be met at the same time:

1.2022 Shanghai epidemic ends condition 1: No new cases or asymptomatic infections in the region in the past 14 days;

2.2022 Shanghai epidemic ends condition 2: The last close contact in the area has been more than 14 days since the last exposure and the nucleic acid test is negative;

3.2022 Condition three for the end of the Shanghai epidemic: All personnel in the area complete a round of nucleic acid screening 2 days before the lockdown, and all results are negative.

In general, the 2022 Shanghai epidemic is expected to end and return to normal by the end of April, and it will definitely end during the May 1st Labor Day, but the specific situation depends on the new epidemic situation.