Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak – Failure of Zero-COVID strategy and effect on China’s economy
Shanghai has been plunged into an extended lockdown and some residents face some more days of isolation in their homes as China's strict Zero-COVID policy threatens the country's economy. Shanghai has put all its 26 million residents under lockdown in China's biggest citywide imposition of the restrictions since the pandemic began as authorities admitted the difficulty in containing the fast-spreading Omicron variant. Currently, Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control is at the most difficult and most critical stage, said Wu Qianyu, an official at the municipal health commission. Most of the medical staff have arrived in Shanghai by military planes and trains to help with the mass nucleic acid testing while others will help ease the burden on staff at makeshift hospitals. China dis...