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One of the hardest things to bear about the Shanghai lockdown, says a contact who has been shut in a small apartment with her father for the past two weeks, is the uncertainty.
She spends her days on WeChat message groups, trying to co-ordinate bulk food orders, or looking out of the window to see where the authorities have placed the red lines of their cordon sanitaire, which residents must not cross.
There is little other information. Social media shows a city on the edge.
Residents yell from their balconies and demand food. Drones broadcast messages demanding they return inside.
Thousands of people who have tested positive are crammed into isolation centres.
On Tuesday, the United States State Department ordered non-essential workers to leave its consulate in the city because of “arbitrary enforcement of local laws and Covid-19 related restrictions”.
It is one of the most severe lockdowns of the entire pandemic. It will affect the economies of Shanghai, China and the whole world.
Yet it is happening at a time when, in Europe and the US, many people are on to their third or fourth round of infection and ready to ignore the whole thing.
More at https://shrtcô.de/bZ8JZ8
She spends her days on WeChat message groups, trying to co-ordinate bulk food orders, or looking out of the window to see where the authorities have placed the red lines of their cordon sanitaire, which residents must not cross.
There is little other information. Social media shows a city on the edge.
Residents yell from their balconies and demand food. Drones broadcast messages demanding they return inside.
Thousands of people who have tested positive are crammed into isolation centres.
On Tuesday, the United States State Department ordered non-essential workers to leave its consulate in the city because of “arbitrary enforcement of local laws and Covid-19 related restrictions”.
It is one of the most severe lockdowns of the entire pandemic. It will affect the economies of Shanghai, China and the whole world.
Yet it is happening at a time when, in Europe and the US, many people are on to their third or fourth round of infection and ready to ignore the whole thing.
More at https://shrtcô.de/bZ8JZ8
