More than 25 million residents have been shut inside their homes for four weeks while officials battle to contain the city’s worst Omicron surge to date. As fences go up around housing blocks with no end to the lockdown in sight, we report from the covi...
For residents like me, the announcement for this lockdown came suddenly. After battling a rising wave of Omicron cases in March the Shanghai government announced on the evening of March 27 that from 3am the following day the Pudong area would be in a four-day quarantine. Shanghai is bisected by the Huangpu River into Pudong and Puxi, which translate to the east and west of the Huangpu. Those in Pudong had around an hour to scrabble food supplies before shops closed.
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