China began locking down most of Shanghai as part of its strict COVID-19 strategy, amid questions over the policy's economic toll on the country.
China began its most extensive lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's "zero-COVID" strategy.The Associated PressA transit officer wearing protective gear controls access to a tunnel in the direction of Pudong district, which is in lockdown as a measure against COVID-19, in Shanghai, China, on Monday.
Shanghai's Pudong financial district and nearby areas will be locked down from Monday to Friday as mass testing gets underway, the local government said. In the second phase of the lockdown, the vast downtown area west of the Huangpu River that divides the city will start its own five-day lockdown Friday.
"The overall impact is still great," Li told The Associated Press, pointing especially to losses suffered by workers in the informal sector, who have no such support. Two deaths were reported March 20 in Jilin. Before that, mainland China's official death toll had stood at 4,636 for a year. China has called its long-standing "zero-tolerance" approach the most economical and effective prevention strategy against COVID-19.
With China's economic growth already slowing, the extreme measures are seen as worsening difficulties that have hit employment, consumption and even global supply chains. With a 21-day curfew in place for all foreigners arriving from abroad, travel between China and other countries has fallen dramatically.
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