A medical worker from east China's Jiangsu Province takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a community in Pudong New Area of east China's Shanghai, April 4, 2022. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)
Shanghai's neighboring province of Jiangsu had received 5,504 people transferred from Shanghai for quarantine by 6 p.m. Friday.
Jiangsu will prepare a total of 30,000 quarantine rooms to aid the metropolis in its fight against its COVID-19 resurgence, according to the Jiangsu provincial COVID-19 prevention and control office.
One or two designated professionals are stationed at each quarantine site to provide mental health services, and free psychological assistance services hotlines remain open 24 hours a day.
Zhejiang, another province neighboring Shanghai, will also provide 30,000 rooms for people transferred from Shanghai.
Shanghai reported 1,015 new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 22,609 local asymptomatic cases on Friday.
