China is implementing a phased lockdown of its largest city this week as part of the country's draconian “zero-COVID” strategy to try to rein in the largest COVID-19 surge since the beginning of the pandemic.
On Monday, Shanghai's Pudong financial district and all areas east of the Huangpu River will go into lockdown for five days as officials start mass testing residents. Residents wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus line up outside a supermarket at night to buy groceries on Sunday, March 27, 2022, in Shanghai, China.
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