The Latest Breaking News from Shanghai

After Shanghai recently reported a new daily record for asymptomatic coronavirus infections, the city is locking down in two stages. It's the biggest step taken in the Chinese metropolis since the Covid-19 pandemic began more than two years ago. But some residents are complaining that the cost of China's strict…

Frustrated and locked down, residents of Shanghai have taken to social media to vent, questioning the practicality of persisting with China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 in its most populous city.

Shanghai's COVID-19 lockdown is extended to some western parts of the city earlier than scheduled, as robots with loudspeakers remind millions of people to stay at home.

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) JV supplier Aptiv PLC (NYSE:APTV) dismissed workers from a Shanghai production facility, citing COVID issues, Reuters reports. Aptiv abruptly dismissed workers at one of the sites, which made wire harnesses, on March 29. Wire harnesses were unique to each model, and it was not possible to build vehicles…

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General Motors Company’s (NYSE:GM) joint venture in Shanghai, China, is continuing production amid lockdown by making workers sleep on factory floors, Reuters reported. The company has formed an arrangement in which workers sleep, live, and work in isolation from the rest of the world to prevent virus transmission.  General Motors runs the facilities…

SHANGHAI: Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday as panic-buying in the Chinese city of about 25 million stripped supermarket shelves bare.

More than 20,000 bankers, traders and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai's Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China's giant financial hub ticking over through a COVID-19 lockdown, according to local administration officials.

Authorities in the city of around 25 million people decided to lock down half the city at a time to conduct mass testing to fight a new COVID-19 outbreak.