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‘Like a Prison’: Shanghai Residents See No End in Sight 6 Weeks Into COVID-19 Lockdown

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‘Like a Prison’: Shanghai Residents See No End in Sight 6 Weeks Into COVID-19 Lockdown
A worker standing on a street during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on May 10, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Dorothy Li
5/11/2022|Updated: 5/12/2022

Shanghai has entered its seventh week of lockdown, and measures have only become harsher, with officials being pressured to eliminate every COVID-19 infection within communities as per the regime’s “zero-COVID” standard, leaving millions with little hope in sight.

In some parts of the city, if an apartment building has a positive case, all its residents are forcefully shipped off to quarantine facilities. Meanwhile, infected people have had to hand over their house keys so health workers can disinfect their homes.

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