Shanghai begins locking down in an effort to curb a Covid outbreak, sparking food supply fears and complaints over the failure to slow the spread of the virus in China's biggest city
China has continued to enforce what it calls the"dynamic zero-Covid" approach, calling that the most economical and effective prevention strategy against Covid-19.
Shanghai's Pudong financial district and nearby areas will be locked down from early on Monday to Friday as citywide mass testing gets under way, 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 then start its own five-day lockdown on Friday.
Already, many communities within the city of 26 million have been locked down, with their residents required to submit to multiple tests for Covid-19. And Shanghai’s Disney theme park is among the businesses that closed earlier. China categorises such cases separately from "confirmed cases" — those in people who are sick — leading to much lower totals in daily reports.In response to its biggest outbreak in two years, China has continued to enforce what it calls the "dynamic zero-Covid" approach, calling that the most economical and effective prevention strategy against Covid-19.
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