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.
by Emily Feng
Apr 01, 2022
3 minutes
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. â 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 â first in the city's eastern Pudong district, then
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