The Latest Breaking News from Shanghai

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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 8, 2022

‘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 · Apr 8, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.47% on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.11%

Caixin Global · Apr 8, 2022

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…

The Times of India · Apr 8, 2022

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.

Reuters · Apr 8, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Apr 8, 2022

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 News Lens · Apr 8, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022