Half of Shanghai in lockdown to Covid-19 outbreak

The government had sought to avoid the kind of hard lockdowns regularly deployed in other Chinese cities, opting instead for rolling localised lockdowns, in an effort to protect Shanghai's economy. But Shanghai has in recent weeks become China's Covid hotspot, and on Monday another record high was reported with 3,500 new confirmed cases.

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