Photo: Emmanuel Serna/Zuma Press Half of Shanghai went into lockdown on Monday, as authorities escalated measures to contain a spiraling Covid-19 outbreak in China’s financial capital. After ... ( read original story ...)
Premarket stocks: Shanghai is locking down 10 million people at a time. Why that’s a big deal
Many countries around the world have decided to live with the coronavirus, even as a new subvariant fuels another wave of infections. But China is an extremely important exception. ( read original story ...)
China locks down Shanghai, its biggest city, as Omicron fuels record surge in COVID cases
Locking down the entire global financial hub's population of 25 million all at once was deemed too big a risk, so it has been split in half for a phased shutdown. ( read original story ...)
Shanghai Enters Two-Stage Lockdown As China Scrambles To Contain Covid Surge
That’s the total number of “asymptomatic” Covid cases reported in Shanghai on Monday according to China’s National Health Commission—nearly 70% of the ... ( read original story ...)
Tesla halts production in Shanghai as COVID lockdowns split China’s financial capital in two
Health authorities in Shanghai placed half of the Chinese financial capital under COVID lockdown Monday, essentially dividing the city of 26 million into east and west districts, separated by the ... ( read original story ...)
Panic at the supermarket as Shanghai forces residents into lockdown
Video posted to social media Sunday shows chaotic scenes erupting in Shanghai after authorities announced part of the city would enter a large-scale lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19. The ... ( read original story ...)
Shanghai starts China’s biggest Covid lockdown in 2 years
The financial capital will conduct mass testing in two phases as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s zero-tolerance strategy. ( read original story ...)