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Shanghai authorities fence off COVID-hit areas, sparking outrage

A woman takes a COVID-19 test in a residential community under lockdown in Shanghai on April 16, 2022 [Alex Plavevski/EFE-EPA]

Shanghai authorities have erected fences outside residential buildings in the city to contain a COVID-19 outbreak, sparking renewed outrage over a lockdown that has forced many of the Chinese city’s 25 million residents to remain indoors.

China’s most populous city and most important economic hub is battling the country’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak by closing off areas of the city and forcing all those who test positive into quarantine centres.

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