A clumsy lockdown of Shanghai is testing the “zero-covid” strategy
Short of food and medicine, residents of China’s financial hub are growing angry
THE EFFORT to stamp out covid-19 in Shanghai has taken on the characteristics of a military campaign. The army has published photos of planes offloading personnel and supplies. Tens of thousands of medical workers have marched into the city. At least as many covid patients will be spirited out—bused to field hospitals in neighbouring areas, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away. The rest of the city’s 25m residents will remain locked down as the fight against the virus drags on.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Shanghai swoons”
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