The Latest Breaking News from Shanghai

Shanghai starts to ease lockdown despite record 25,000-plus new Covid infections

It promises relief for some of the city’s 25 million residents, many of whom struggled to find food and medicine in the lockdown

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2022

Social media videos show 'riots' over food as Chinese city Shanghai enters third week of strict lockdown

Small "riots" break out in Shanghai as residents who have been confined in their homes for three weeks show their frustration at China's draconian "COVID-zero" policy.

ABC News · Apr 11, 2022

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 2.61% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 3.67%

Caixin Global · Apr 11, 2022

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 · Apr 10, 2022

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.

Reuters · Apr 10, 2022

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 · Apr 10, 2022

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 · Apr 10, 2022

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 · Apr 9, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Apr 9, 2022

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 · Apr 9, 2022