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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.

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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.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Shanghai carries out more COVID tests as food supply frustrations rise

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Reuters

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.

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XE covid symptoms as 26 million locked down in Shanghai

The recombinant variant of Omicron has been detected in the UK

Liverpool Echo

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

The Independent UK

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Reason

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.

Reuters

‘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…

France 24

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

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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.

Benzinga

Tesla Giga Shanghai Said To Remain Shut Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns

Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) key manufacturing plant Giga Shanghai remained shut on Friday amid citywide lockdowns in China due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, Nikkei Asia

The Independent UK

3 Shanghai officials sacked over COVID-19 response

Three local officials in Shanghai have been sacked over a slack response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city, where residents are complaining of harsh lockdown conditions leading to shortages of food and basic necessities

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Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.47% on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.11%

The Times of India

For China's leaders, 'lying flat' is scarier than Covid

In the US and Europe, the phrase "living with the virus" refers to reopening the economy and trusting that vaccines work. Not in China. In the public discourse, that would be tantamount to "lie flat," a catchphrase for encouraging inaction — an approach that has grown so popular that it…

Reuters

Shanghai widens COVID testing as other Chinese cities impose curbs

Shanghai on Friday announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of COVID testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and other Chinese cities tightened curbs - even in places with no recent infections.

The Times of India

Covid-19: Shanghai races to build hundreds of thousands of isolation beds

SHANGHAI: Shanghai is transforming conference centers and conscripting neighboring provinces to create isolation facilities for hundreds of thousands of people, a sign of its commitment to a zero tolerance approach to Covid-19 amid China's worst outbreak to date.

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Shanghai Continues Citywide Lock-down Despite Public Outcry, Food Shortages, and Chaos

As the Chinese government tries to suppress the outbreak in Shanghai under zero-Covid policy, it is said that more recent deaths have been related to the lockdown than the virus.

The Independent UK

Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown

Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people to their homes

Benzinga

Boeing 737 MAX Lands In China Amid Uncertainty Over Model's Return: Reuters

A Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX intended for China Eastern Airlines (NYSE:CEA) subsidiary Shanghai Airlines landed in Shanghai on Thursday, according to flight-tracking websites, amid uncertainty about when the model will resume flying in China, reported Reuters. Flight BOE631 from Guam came more than three weeks after the first 737 MAX bound for a Chinese…

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