Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes.
The Associated PressA delivery man arranges his orders in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western Shanghai on Monday. Residents of the city are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies while most of them are confined to their residences.
Shanghai highlights the soaring human and economic cost of China's "zero-COVID" strategy that aims to isolate every infected person. Officials say Shanghai, home of the world's busiest port and China's main stock exchange, has enough food. But a deputy mayor, Chen Tong, acknowledged Thursday getting it the "last 100 metres" to households is a challenge.
Another online grocer, Dingdong Maicai, said it shifted 500 employees in Shanghai from other posts to making deliveries.
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