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Covid-19 pandemic: Shanghai's locked down elite join grocery hunt

The circulation of Xu's post reflects that food shortages are hitting the city's high-earners after middle-class residents have been struggling for weeks

Shanghai widens COVID testing as other Chinese cities impose curbs

Beijing intervened in Shanghai after the failure of its effort to isolate Covid by locking the city down in stages

Shanghai's Covid lockdown risks becoming biggest crisis of Xi's tenure

The struggle to obtain daily necessities like food and medical care has triggered rare pushback from residents, with some saying the Communist Party's cure is worse than the disease

Shanghai becomes new Covid-19 epicentre with consistent record cases

Shanghai has become Covid-19 epicentre as it set a record of six-straight days of logging around 20,000 cases, as the city ramped up mass testing to tackle the rapid spread of the Omicron variant

Shanghai starts new round of mass testing as Covid-19 cases surge

Shanghai, China's largest city with over 26 million has started a new round of mass testing after the metropolis added 17,007 new Covid infections, setting a daily record for the fifth consecutive day

Shanghai eases child separation policy but extends Covid lockdown

The lockdown of China's most populous city, which started in parts of Shanghai 10 days ago and has since been expanded to confine practically all of its 26 million residents at home

Covid outbreak 'extremely grim' in China as Shanghai extends lockdown

The Covid-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains extremely grim amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday

China sends doctors, military to test 26 mn Shanghai residents for Covid

Multiple provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Beijing have sent healthcare workers to the megapolis.

Shanghai completes testing 26 mn people as China reports new Covid variant

Shanghai completed nucleic acid tests of its over 26 million residents, and perhaps the world to stem COVID-19 surge, while another city Suzhou reported a new variant of coronavirus.

Shanghai orders twin tests for all its citizens to stem spread of Covid-19

China's business capital Shanghai on Sunday ordered the city's entire 26.3 million people to undergo twin tests to stop the spread of coronavirus

Shanghai to screen 16 mn people in 2nd phase of coronavirus lockdown

In the last 24 hours, Shanghai reported 355 confirmed locally transmitted Covid-19 cases and 5,298 asymptomatic carriers

Shanghai residents rush to stock up as second stage of Covid lockdown looms

Many residents have vented frustration on social media with videos and images of crowded quarantine centres, while seeking help with medical treatment and buying food

Shanghai urges patience as Covid cases drop for first time in 2 weeks

Shanghai authorities on Thursday appealed to residents to keep cooperating with tight curbs imposed to stop COVID-19 spreading

Shanghai residents take to social media over lockdown, demand explanation

Shanghai's distribution of millions of self-administered antigen testing kits to detect cases quickly, which China only approved this month, has also sown some confusion and fear

Shanghai expands Covid lockdown as new daily cases surge by a third

Several residents living in western districts on Tuesday received notice from their housing committees that they would be stopped from leaving their compounds for the next seven days

China tries to limit economic blow of Shanghai shutdown due to Covid surge

As millions of Shanghai residents line up for coronavirus tests in the closed-down metropolis, authorities are promising tax cuts for shopkeepers

Shanghai again tightens Covid-19 lockdown on second day of curbs

Shanghai, China's most populous city, on Tuesday again tightened the first phase of a two-stage COVID-19 lockdown, asking some residents to stay indoors unless

Asian shares gain as BOJ defends ultra-easy stance, oil price eases

Japanese shares led gains in Asian stocks on Tuesday as the Bank of Japan defended its ultra-easy stance, while oil slid on fears of lower demand from China as Shanghai applied a "zero-COVID" strategy

Shanghai says will hand out $22 bn in tax relief to firms amid Covid fight

China's Shanghai said it would roll out policies to help the local economy cope with a surge in Covid-19 cases in the city, including offering refunds that will reduce firms' tax burdens by $22 bn

Shanghai locks down half of city to fight Covid-19 outbreak: Report

The outbreak is testing country's virus strategy, which is proving tougher to prosecute amid more contagious variants and is dragging on the world's 2nd-largest economy as rest of the globe normalises