Empty shelves and anxiety as Shanghai Covid-19 cases surge

Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday as spreading anxiety in the Chinese city of about 25 million prompted panic-buying at supermarkets.

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Pudong district is pictured during a lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Shanghai on March 28, 2022. - Millions of people in China's financial hub were confined to their homes on March 28 as the eastern half of Shanghai went into lockdown to curb the country's biggest ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. --Photo: Hector Retamal | AFP

Malika Shahid

2022-03-29 09:36:39

Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday as spreading anxiety in the Chinese city of about 25 million prompted panic-buying at supermarkets.

Millions endured a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half confined to their homes for four days and subjected to mandatory testing.

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