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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Shanghai to restrict access to food deliveries and hospitals in new severe phase of Covid lockdown

A worker in a protective suit sprays disinfectant at a COVID-19 testing site

(Picture: AP)

Shanghai officials will continue with China’s “zero-Covid’ strategy by further restricting food deliveries and access to hospitals, despite the WHO advising the country to change course.

Officials appear to have walked back on efforts to ease restrictions in parts of the city, despite a drop in new infections, with neighbours of Covid cases also being forced into quarantine in some cases.

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