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Shanghai disinfects homes, closes all subways in COVID fight

Teams in white protective suits are going into the homes of coronavirus-infected people to spray disinfectant as Shanghai tries to root out an omicron outbreak under China’s strict “zero-COVID” strategy

The Independent UK

China tightens Covid noose as cases persist in Shanghai, Beijing

BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China is tightening pandemic restrictions in Shanghai and expanding a mass testing sweep in Beijing as officials chase the elusive goal of wiping out Covid-19 cases in the community.

The Times of India

Tesla Said To Halt Shanghai Production Again — This Time Due To Supply Woes

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) halted production at the Giga Shanghai on Monday due to issues with supplies, Reuters

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‘No end in sight’: Shanghai residents chafe at harsh Covid measures

Tensions rise again as lockdowns grind on and the city’s population tire of strict zero-Covid policy

The Guardian - UK

Lenovo, Xiaomi, Other Chinese Tech Giants Pull Back From Russia

Chinese tech companies, including PC giant Lenovo Group Ltd (OTC:LNVGY) and smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (OTC:XIACY), quietly pulled back from Russia under pressure from U.S. sanctions and suppliers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Consumer drone giant SZ DJI Technology Co suspended its business in Russia and Ukraine pending a compliance review. The companies pulled back amid Beijing…

Benzinga

Texas Instruments Denies Firing Staff as Shanghai Microcontroller Unit Disbanded

Global semiconductor giant is reassigning staff to other units amid a dwindling market share, chip experts say

Caixin Global

Shanghai tightens lockdown despite falling COVID cases

Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak

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Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.09% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.41%

Caixin Global

Downtown Beijing Goes Quiet as Zero-Covid Policy Smothers Capital

Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on Monday as China's capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with creeping restrictions on movement. Beijing residents fear they may soon find themselves in the grip of the same draconian measures that have trapped most of Shanghai's 25 million people at…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China trade weakens after cities shut down to fight virus

China’s export growth tumbled in April after Shanghai and other major industrial cities were shut down to fight virus outbreaks

The Independent UK

'Like a prison': Shanghai, Beijing ratchet up COVID restrictions

China's two largest cities tightened COVID-19 curbs on Monday, fuelling public angst and even questions about the legality of its uncompromising battle with the virus that has battered the world's second largest economy.

Reuters

China premier warns of ‘grave’ jobs situation amid lockdowns

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned of a “complicated and grave” employment situation as Beijing and Shanghai tightened curbs on residents in a bid to contain COVID-19 outbreaks in the country’s most important cities.

Tribune News Service

Covid-19: Videos of people being dragged into isolation censored in China

BEIJING: Videos of people being dragged from their homes by health workers in hazmat suits coursed through Chinese social media late Sunday before being pulled down on some platforms, as Shanghai’s intensive lockdown enters its seventh week.

The Times of India

Analysis-Shanghai COVID crisis puts political spotlight on key Xi ally

If Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang has been politically bruised by the city's struggle to tame a COVID-19 outbreak that has infuriated residents and caused severe economic damage, there is little sign of it.

Reuters

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Shanghai tightens lockdown to hit zero-COVID goal by late May - sources

Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China's biggest city by late this month, people familiar with the matter said.

Reuters

Chaos at Apple supplier Quanta shows strains of Shanghai COVID lockdown

Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China's "closed-loop" management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and work on-site in a secure bubble.

Reuters

'Stop asking why': Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown, Beijing keeps testing

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China's capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.

Benzinga

EV Week In Review: Tesla Has Good News On Shanghai, Nio's Plans Amid Delisting Risk, And This Auto Giant Renews EV Leadership Pledge

Electric vehicle and allied sector stocks extended their losses in the week ending May 6, caught in the vortex of the broader market sell-off seen in the final two sessions of the week. Chinese EV stocks led the week's retreat amid fears that they could be potentially delisted from U.S. exchanges.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing kicks off fresh round of COVID tests as Shanghai postpones crucial exams

China's capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai, where millions of residents have been locked down for over a month. The draconian movement curbs on Shanghai,…

Reuters

Beijing kicks off fresh round of COVID tests as Shanghai postpones crucial exams

Reuters

U.S. OKs China Eastern rerouting of New York-Shanghai flights

The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday approved China Eastern Airlines Corp's request to let it extend the rerouting of New York-to-Shanghai flights, over COVID-19 measures, to a different Chinese airport through May 31.

Benzinga

Chaos Erupts At Apple Plant In China Due To Strict Lockdown

Hundreds of workers at Quanta Computer Inc's (OTC:QUCPY) Shanghai factory manufacturing Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) devices clashed with authorities and flooded past isolation barriers after weeks under lockdown on May 5, Bloomberg reports. Quanta is a critical partner for Apple, generating over 50% of its revenue from the iPhone-maker as it assembled MacBooks and other devices.…

Los Angeles Times

Can China preserve both its economy and its zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy?

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's zero-COVID strategy is starting to derail another major item on the government's agenda: economic stability.

Benzinga

Tesla Will Run Two Shifts At Shanghai Plant From May 16

Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) looks to run two shifts at its Shanghai plant from May 16, Reuters reports. The additional shift would enable the EV maker to return factory output to pre-lockdown levels. Tesla aims to churn out 2,600 electric cars from the Shanghai plant per day. Also Read: Tesla Shanghai Workers Forced To…

Benzinga

ACM Research Misses Q1 Due To Shanghai Lockdown

ACM Research, Inc (NASDAQ:ACMR) reported a first-quarter FY22 revenue decline of 3.5% year-on-year to $42.2 million, missing the consensus of $51.8 million. The decline reflected lower revenue from single wafer wet cleaning tools, advanced packaging, and other back-end processing equipment due to COVID-19 restrictions in Shanghai. The Shanghai lockdown negatively impacted revenue from…

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