Shanghai city authorities say a taxing, one-month lockdown of China’s largest city may be eased in some neighborhoods if new COVID-19 testing shows the virus is no longer spreading in the community ... ( read original story ...)
Shanghai resident describes what it’s like inside Covid-19 quarantine facility
Shanghai resident Jane Polubotko describes what it was like to be held inside a government-run Covid-19 quarantine facility. ( read original story ...)
Beijing hoping to avoid Shanghai-style lockdown with mass testing
Millions of people in Beijing took their second Covid-19 tests of the week yesterday as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiralling into an all-out crisis, ... ( read original story ...)
In Shanghai, The Jokes Are No Longer Funny
An essay tracing the evolution of Shanghai lockdown memes from giddy jests about Shanghai culture to gallows humor and gloomy meditations on the state of society was censored last week after going ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases drop for fourth day while Beijing logs record infections after mass tests
While Shanghai recorded its lowest daily number of new cases since April 5, Beijing added a record number of new infections amid heightened concerns that a severe outbreak is developing. ( read original story ...)
In Shanghai, Leaving Home for Testing Means COVID Exposure
Some 11.88 million people live in lockdown zones, where residents must remain at home except in special circumstances such as a life-threatening illness. Shanghai, with more than 25 million residents, ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing presses on with mass COVID-19 testing as locked-down Shanghai seethes
BEIJING: The second round of COVID-19 testing in Beijing's largest district began on Wednesday (Apr 27), with this week's campaign to screen most of the Chinese capital's 22 million residents so far ... ( read original story ...)