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

‘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.

Dorothy Li
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