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    26 million people in Shanghai are locked down due to a surge in COVID cases

    by The Associated Press Apr 05, 2022 3 minutes

    BEIJING — The COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.

    Director of Shanghai's working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, was quoted by state media as saying that the outbreak in the city was "still running at a high level."

    "The situation is extremely grim," Gu said.

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