Cars hit the streets, horns blaring, and firecrackers sparkled in the night sky as a festive mood entered Shanghai after weeks of frustration and despair amid the city's Covid-19 lockdown
SINGAPORE—Residents gathered at the gates of some housing compounds in Shanghai late Tuesday to stage a countdown to midnight, when the city’s governmentthat had kept them holed up inside their apartments—in many cases for more than two months.
Shortly after the deadline passed, a convoy of cars emerged from the gates of one complex, sounding their horns and with national flags draped over their hoods, videos circulating on social media showed. Passengers could be seen standing with their heads out of sunroofs. Firecrackers sparkled in the night sky as a festive mood entered the city after weeks of chaos, frustration
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