Shanghai Covid Lockdown

• Ikea shoppers in China panic, try to escape flash-COVID lockdown

  Videos taken from inside the Shanghai Ikea store show shoppers rushing exits and pushing their way through security guards.

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  Aug 15, 2022
  
• Beijing faces ‘explosive’ COVID outbreak as Shanghai begins mass testing

  While Shanghai has lifted its lockdown and begin mass testing, Chinese authorities say the country's capital Beijing is facing a COVID-19 outbreak related to a bar.

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  Jun 11, 2022
  
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• Shanghai to lift two-month COVID-19 lockdown on June 1

  Shanghai authorities will lift the city's COVID-19 lockdown from midnight on Wednesday.

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  May 30, 2022
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• Shanghai residents demand release from COVID-19 lockdown — some get it

  The Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown has prompted resistance from people being taken away to quarantine and workers required to sleep at their workplaces.

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  May 28, 2022
• Shanghai puts up metal barriers as it tightens COVID-19 measures

  In the city's financial district, Pudong, the barriers were put up in several neighborhoods under a local government directive, local media reported.

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  Apr 24, 2022
• U.S. orders all non-emergency consular staff to leave Shanghai due to COVID-19

  The State Department said the order is an upgrade from the ``authorized'' departure issued last week that made the decision voluntary.

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  Apr 11, 2022
• Shanghai lockdowns extended in ‘extremely grim’ COVID-19 outbreak

  Though the vast majority of China's population is immunized, its domestically produced inactive virus vaccines are widely seen as less effective than mRNA versions.

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  Apr 5, 2022
• China to lock down Shanghai in two stages for testing as COVID-19 cases spike

  Shanghai has battled a new COVID-19 surge for nearly a month and for Saturday it reported its highest daily number of cases since the initial outbreak in China receded.

  Health

  Mar 27, 2022