The shutdown of Shanghai, which confined most of its 25 million people to their homes, is testing patience of people who are increasingly fed up with China's “zero-COVID” policy that aims to isolate every case.
BEIJING — Beibei sleeps beside thousands of strangers in rows of cots in a high-ceilinged exhibition center. The lights stay on all night, and the 30-year-old real estate saleswoman has yet to find a hot shower.
Residents show “no obvious symptoms,” Beibei, who asked to be identified only by her given name, told The Associated Press in an interview by video phone.The shutdown of Shanghai, which confined most of its 25 million people to their homes, is testing patience ofwith China's “zero-COVID” policy that aims to isolate every case.
Anyone who tests positive but shows few or no symptoms is required to spend one week in a quarantine facility. Beibei said she had a stuffy nose and briefly lost part of her senses of taste and smell, but those symptoms passed in a few days. Most pass the time by reading, square dancing, taking online classes or watching videos on mobile phones.
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