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Shanghai locks down, but experts ask how else China could combat COVID

Battling its biggest COVID surge in two years, Shanghai has instituted rigorous lockdowns — again — that are frustrating residents.
A worker in protective gear stands by barriers set up as part of lockdown measures against COVID-19 in Jing'an district, in Shanghai on March 31.

The affluent city of Shanghai is going through a staggered lockdown this week as it battles its biggest surge of COVID cases in two years. – more than 5,000 new case a daily, a relatively huge amount for a city which had enjoyed near-zero cases for the last two years.

The stringent quarantine measures include home isolation for all residents and cancellation of all public transport while authorities test all 25 million residents – first in the city's eastern Pudong district, then

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