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 ...)
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 ...)
Shanghai tests to loosen COVID lockdown
Shanghai officials said Wednesday that they would begin COVID-19 testing over the coming days to determine which neighborhoods were considered lower risk. ( read original story ...)
Lone female courier in Shanghai determined to help city fight Covid-19 Lone female courier in Shanghai determined to help city fight Covid-19
Forty-year-old Liu Xiaoli is the only woman among the first batch of couriers to come to Shanghai from Henan Province. ( read original story ...)
Shanghai lockdown supply chain issues are a ‘real nightmare’: Gordan Chang
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang reacts to the Shanghai lockdown creating a supply chain nightmare. ( read original story ...)
China: Weibo removes hashtag about food shortages in Shanghai as locked-down residents go hungry
Despite Shanghai authorities’ assurances of providing necessities to the 26 million people confined to their homes, residents of China’s most-populous city have been struggling to keep hunger at bay ... ( read original story ...)