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China unhappy with US virus ‘accusation’ as COVID spreads

China defended its measures to curb the virus outbreak and expressed displeasure with the U.S. over what it calls a “groundless accusation” of Chinese pandemic policies, even as cases in Shanghai continued to spread despite an extensive lockdown.

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Shanghai discharges thousands of patients, boosts supplies

Shanghai has discharged over 11,000 recovered COVID-19 patients and health authorities emphasize that they must be allowed to return home despite the lockdown that has severely restricted movement in China’s largest city

The Independent UK

Shanghai residents question human cost of China's COVID quarantines

Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai's Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city's largest such centre.

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Shanghai seeks to reassure residents over COVID-hit supplies

Shanghai reported nearly 25,000 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections on Sunday and sought to assure locked-down residents of China's most populous city that supply bottlenecks affecting availability of food and other items would ease.

Reuters

China labels U.S. concerns over COVID regulations 'groundless accusations'

China's foreign ministry expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with the United States late on Saturday after it raised concerns over China's coronavirus control measures.

Reuters

US tells citizens to avoid Shanghai on ‘arbitrary’ COVID curbs

The U.S. State Department asked Americans to reconsider travel to China and avoid visiting virus hot spots including Shanghai due to what it calls an “arbitrary enforcement” of COVID-19 restrictions amid the country’s worst outbreak.

Tribune News Service

Furious mobs loot shops and start fires in China as anger mounts over Covid lockdown

Officials in China's largest city of Shanghai have been separating Covid-infected babies and children from their parents and policing a 22-hour lockdown in an attempt to curb surging cases of Omicron

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Twentieth Party Congress | A pivotal moment for China’s next decade

The once-in-five-year congress, set for later this year, will shape China’s politics for years to come

The Hindu

Shanghai, Guangzhou plan more mass tests as COVID cases rise

Shanghai announced another round of mass coronavirus testing, while the southern metropolis of Guangzhou said it will do the same for all 18 million residents, as authorities accelerate efforts to curb China’s worst outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.

Tribune News Service

French voters in Covid-hit Shanghai unable to cast votes in presidential poll

French citizens in Shanghai will be unable to vote at a city polling station in Sunday's first round of the presidential election, France's embassy in Beijing said on Friday. This due to the city's strict Covid-19 lockdown rules.

Radio France Internationale

Shanghai to Start Easing Lockdown after Another Mass Testing

China's largest city of Shanghai will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing, authorities said Saturday. The fresh round of testing comes as the city reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic.

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Shanghai to start easing lockdown after another mass testing

China’s largest city of Shanghai says it will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing

The Independent UK

China EV Maker Nio Suspends Production Due to Supply Chain Disruptions

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio said on Saturday it has suspended production after the country's measures to contain the recent surge of COVID-19 cases disrupted operations at its suppliers. "Since March, due to reasons to do with the epidemic, the company's supplier partners in several places including Jilin, Shanghai…

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China's Health System Faces Raft of Challenges as Omicron Hits

China is battling its biggest spike in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with millions under lockdown and the healthcare system feeling the pressure. One of the last countries sticking to a zero-Covid strategy, China aims to stamp out every infection with strict lockdowns and by sending all…

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Shanghai carries out more COVID tests as food supply frustrations rise

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Deaths of elderly patients at Shanghai hospital call China's zero-COVID approach into question

Chinese families say elderly relatives are not being properly cared for as healthcare workers are taken for quarantine in adherence to strict COVID-19 protocols.

Liverpool Echo

XE covid symptoms as 26 million locked down in Shanghai

The recombinant variant of Omicron has been detected in the UK

The Independent UK

Shanghai hospital pays the price for China's COVID response

A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China’s stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people

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Los Angeles Times

Strain of Shanghai’s COVID lockdown tests China’s zero tolerance resolve

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A month ago, China was contemplating how to transition from the “zero tolerance” COVID-19 policy that kept it largely infection-free during the pandemic. But a fast-spreading outbreak in the country’s financial center has shown just how distant that possibility rests.

Reason

Under COVID Lockdown, Shanghai's People Are Running Out of Food and Meds While Pets Get Killed in the Streets

As officials forcibly separate parents from their COVID-positive children, criticism of the CCP mounts.

Reuters

U.S. closely monitoring COVID lockdown in Shanghai, White House says

The Biden administration is closely monitoring a coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai that could cause delays to air cargo, White house press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.

France 24

‘They are going to starve to death’: Shanghai residents in lockdown with ‘no end in sight’

Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial hub, has been under a total lockdown since April 5 as Covid-19 cases skyrocket. The city’s 26 million inhabitants have been barred from leaving their homes or apartment buildings and are now depending on government supplies and overloaded grocery delivery apps for food. The…

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Desperation amid food shortages in Shanghai as Covid lockdown bites

Lockdown had been due to end on Tuesday, leaving residents unprepared to be indefinitely housebound

Reuters

French voters in COVID-hit Shanghai unable to cast ballots in Sunday election

French citizens under lockdown in COVID-hit Shanghai will be unable to vote at a city polling station in Sunday's tightly contested first round of the presidential election, France's embassy in Beijing said on Friday.

The Times of India

Covid-19: Shanghai's locked down elite are joining hunt for groceries

SHANGHAI: Even the wealthy are struggling to buy food as Shanghai's lockdown drags on.

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