Local authorities in Shanghai say they plan to split the city of more than 25 million residents in two, locking down one half and then the other over the next week and a half as the city tries to control a Covid-19 outbreak
Shanghai announced staggered lockdowns and mandatory citywide testing on Sunday, subjecting China’s financial center to the type of stringent pandemic restrictions it has long tried to avoid.
Local authorities said they plan to split the city of more than 25 million residents in two, locking down one half and then the other over the next week and a half as the city tries to control an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.
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