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'We demand an explanation!' Shanghai residents vent COVID lockdown irritation

Frustrated and locked down, residents of Shanghai have taken to social media to vent, questioning the practicality of persisting with China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 in its most populous city.

Reuters

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 1.96% on Wednesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 3.1%

Caixin Global

Shanghai expands COVID lockdown as new daily cases surge by a third

Authorities began locking down some western areas of Shanghai two days ahead of schedule, as new COVID-19 cases in China's most populous city jumped by a third despite stringent measures already in place to try to stop the virus spreading.

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‘Pick the shelves clean’: food shortage rap helps cut through gloom of Shanghai lockdown

Residents in China’s largest city express growing frustration with Covid measures, as well as anger over food shortages

The Guardian - AU

China tries to limit economic blow of Shanghai shutdown

China's leaders are trying to fine-tune their “zero tolerance” COVID strategy to rein in job losses and other costs to the world’s second-largest economy

The Independent UK

Shanghai extends COVID lockdowns, adds nearly 6,000 new cases

Shanghai's COVID-19 lockdown is extended to some western parts of the city earlier than scheduled, as robots with loudspeakers remind millions of people to stay at home.

ABC News

This Tesla-General Motors JV Supplier Abruptly Sends Home Workers From Shanghai Facility Citing COVID Issues

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) JV supplier Aptiv PLC (NYSE:APTV) dismissed workers from a Shanghai production facility, citing COVID issues, Reuters reports. Aptiv abruptly dismissed workers at one of the sites, which made wire harnesses, on March 29. Wire harnesses were unique to each model, and it was not possible to build vehicles…

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Maersk Warns Shanghai City Lockdown Will Severely Hurt Trucking Services And Bump-Up Transport Costs: Reuters

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GM Keeps Up Production In China By Retaining Workers In Factory: Reuters

General Motors Company’s (NYSE:GM) joint venture in Shanghai, China, is continuing production amid lockdown by making workers sleep on factory floors, Reuters reported. The company has formed an arrangement in which workers sleep, live, and work in isolation from the rest of the world to prevent virus transmission. General Motors runs the facilities…

Benzinga

Anxiety and empty shelves as Shanghai Covid cases surge

SHANGHAI: Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday as panic-buying in the Chinese city of about 25 million stripped supermarket shelves bare.

Bangkok Post

In China's Wall Street, bankers and traders sleep in offices to beat Shanghai COVID lockdown

More than 20,000 bankers, traders and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai's Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China's giant financial hub ticking over through a COVID-19 lockdown, according to local administration officials.

Reuters

Tesla Halts Giga Shanghai Production For Four Days Amid Lockdown

Authorities in the city of around 25 million people decided to lock down half the city at a time to conduct mass testing to fight a new COVID-19 outbreak.

InsideEVs

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 0.33% on Tuesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.46%

Caixin Global

Shanghai lockdown tests 'zero-COVID' limits, shakes markets

A two-phase lockdown on Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hardline “zero-COVID" strategy whose effects are being felt beyond the country's borders

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Feeling economic strain, China explores tweaks to ‘Zero COVID’

Shanghai, China’s biggest city, is imposing a lockdown in two phases in an effort to minimise economic disruption.

Reuters

Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown on second day of curbs

China's most populous city tightened the first phase of a two-stage COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday, asking some residents to stay indoors unless they are getting tested as the number of new daily cases exceeded 4,400.

The Guardian - UK

Shanghai begins locking down millions as China’s Covid cases surge

China will shut down city in two stages as it sticks to a ‘zero-Covid’ strategy amid growing outbreaks

Evening Standard

FTSE report: Oil slips and bitcoin jumps as Shanghai Covid lockdown rekindles supply chain fears

The move to lockdown 26 million residents in the major Chinese city Shanghai has hit Asian share prices and knocked Brent crude

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Half of Shanghai in Lockdown to Curb Covid-19 Outbreak

Millions of people in China's financial hub were confined to their homes on Monday as the eastern half of Shanghai went into lockdown to curb the country's biggest ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. The move, announced late Sunday, caused a run on grocery stores by residents who have become increasingly exasperated with…

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.07% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 1.02%

Asharq Al-Awsat

Oil Falls as Shanghai Lockdown Boosts Fears Over Weaker Demand

Oil prices fell more than $3 on Monday as fears over weaker fuel demand in China grew after its financial hub of Shanghai launched a planned two-stage lockdown on Monday to contain a surge in COVID-19 infections. The market kicked off another week of uncertainty, buffeted on one side by…

Wales Online

Large parts of Shanghai locked down as mass Covid-19 testing begins

China has reported more than 56,000 infections nationwide this month

Reuters

Shanghai locks down as COVID surges in China's financial hub

China's financial hub of Shanghai launched a two-stage lockdown of its 26 million residents on Monday, closing bridges and tunnels and restricting highway traffic in a scramble to contain surging COVID-19 cases.

The Independent UK

Much of Shanghai locked down as mass COVID-19 testing begins

China began locking down most of its largest city of Shanghai on Monday as part of its strict COVID-19 strategy, amid questions over the policy’s economic toll

Evening Standard

China to lockdown Shanghai after surge in Covid infections

The city will be locked down in two stages so testing can be carried out

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