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Shanghai surprise: How I survived the world's strictest Covid lockdown
News distribution : In Shanghai, China, where more than 25 million people have spent recent weeks in Covid lockdown, luxury shopping bags have become the hottest status symbols around. (#1398546)
How shopping bags became the only outward sign of wealth in China's locked-down city
There's no place like phone. A desperate migrant worker lived in a telephone booth for a month amid Shanghai's ongoing lockdown.
Squatter lived in phone booth for a month during COVID lockdown
Shanghai, a city of nearly 30 million people, is currently under a hard lockdown, as the Chinese government sticks to its Covid Zero strategy of limiting the virus at all costs. There have been some shocking images and stories over the past few weeks of frustrated apartment dwellers unable to go outside or get basic necessities. Some of those things have improved somewhat, and now some residents are able to coordinate and make their own delivery food orders. On this episode, we speak with David
Transcript: This Is How a Locked-Down Shanghai Apartment Gets Food - Bloomberg
The curious case of shopping bags of the Rich!
Luxury Lives on During China's Latest Lockdowns
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Residents stripped supermarket shelves amid reports the virus had been spreading ‘stealthily’ in the Chinese capital for almost a week
Panic buying in Beijing as fears grow of an imminent Covid lockdown
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Coronavirus Watch: Governments Rush to Secure Ventilators, 2020-03-16
With coronavirus, stocks sink and trading halts in the U.S. - Los Angeles Times
Over the weekend, large demonstrations broke out in cities across China. The protests followed news, spread rapidly across Chinese and international social media, that a fire in an apartment building in Xinjiang’s capital of Urumchi on Friday had turned deadly, claiming at least 10 lives, possibly as a result of the region’s COVID lockdowns. Throngs of residents took to the streets in anger, where the singing of “The Internationale” and China’s national anthem mingled with calls to end the zero-COVID policy. In Shanghai, where protesters gathered Saturday on the city’s Urumchi Road, chants expressed both support for the fire’s victims as well as calls for the lifting of zero-COVID restrictions, and even demands—extraordinary in a country that does not tolerate political dissent—that China’s Communist Party and its newly reappointed leader, Xi Jinping, “step down.” On Sunday, demonstrators appeared at multiple locations across Beijing, including Peking and Tsinghua universities, where some called for “universal rights” and “freedom of expression” while others held aloft blank sheets of paper, symbols of the many things they were forbidden to say.
China in Protest
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Flooded loos, cold showers and no privacy: inside Shanghai's Covid quarantine centre
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