Millions of people across China are in lockdown as the country pursues a 'COVID-zero' strategy amid its worst virus outbreak in two years:
In Shanghai, residential areas and offices in some neighbourhoods remained sealed on Monday as city authorities try to avoid a full lockdown.
A restauranteur with four outlets in different parts of Shanghai said he has to wade through a morass of hyper-local restrictions, giving an indication of how ordinary life in China is still spun on its head by a pandemic that the rest of the world has learned to cope with."I want to close one and keep the rest open, and see how it goes later. What else can I do except tough it out?"Health workers and police wearing protective equipment in Shanghai.
Health official Lei Zhenglong told state broadcaster CCTV that more than 10,000 domestic infections had been recorded in March so far across dozens of provinces, and warned the situation in many areas was "still developing".
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