Shanghai COVID lockdown lifted for some, but millions remain trapped as China sticks to strict "zero-COVID" policy
Headline from CBS News, on the newest of 5 developments
China's biggest city entered its 3rd week of a draconian coronavirus lockdown with anger mounting among its 25 million residents, with no end in sight for most of them.
CBS News's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.
Developments in this update
5 dated developments, oldest first, newest marked. Each is named by one outlet's own headline; open its reports to see every outlet that covered it.
Bowing to public pressure, China changes Shanghai COVID lockdown rules to let parents stay with infected kids
Headline from CBS News ·
As Shanghai lockdown continues, residents face food and supply shortages
Headline from PBS NewsHour ·
Lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities pose a growing threat to the economy
Headline from CNN ·
Lockdown anger in Shanghai intensifies as China sticks to zero-COVID policy
Headline from Newsweek ·
Newest
Shanghai COVID lockdown lifted for some, but millions remain trapped as China sticks to strict "zero-COVID" policy
Frustration is mounting in China's biggest city, but authorities say their controversial "zero-COVID" policy "will continue to guide the country's epidemic control."
Shanghai reported over 13,000 new local infections Tuesday, more than tripling the number reported nine days ago, when it said it would close down half of the city at a time for four days. The part of...
The COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.
The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.
New cases surged after 25 million residents were swabbed in 24 hours, and authorities showed no sign of lifting restrictions despite growing public frustration.
In our news wrap Monday, China sent more than 10,000 health workers to Shanghai as a COVID-19 outbreak spreads, police in Sacramento, California made an arrest after a mass shooting Sunday killed six people, Hungary's pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his nationalist party claimed a sweepi…
China's financial hub recorded more than 13,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, prompting authorities to extend the lockdown for an "indefinite" period of time. The measures come as a blow for many businesses.
Anger swelled last month after an off-duty nurse in Shanghai died, after being turned away from an emergency ward at her own hospital that was closed for disinfection. Another Shanghai resident died a...
The change to the draconian "zero-COVID" policies came as China's largest city struggled to contain the virus, reporting another record number of new cases.
China's lockdown and quarantine policy is testing the limits of the city of 26 million. Parents were separated from kids. And there's not enough staff for the elderly residents of care centers.
Shanghai’s lockdown was due to end in four days but it has since been extended due to the speed of Omicron spread in China’s economic capital. FRANCE 24 reports.
Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people to their homes.
As the coronavirus races through Shanghai, in the city’s worst outbreak since the pandemic began, the authorities have deployed their usual hard-nosed playbook to try and stamp out transmission, no ma...
The biggest city in China is in complete lockdown, with no end date in sight. Cases are rising and the 26 million residents of Shanghai are not permitted to leave their homes — not even to buy groceries or walk the dog.
China's unwavering commitment to stamping out Covid by locking down big cities such as Shanghai threatens to deal a hefty shock to its vast economy, place more strain on global supply chains and further fuel inflation.
Confronted by a sharp increase in Covid-19 infections, authorities across China are stepping up coronavirus control measures, including restrictions on movement, mass testing and new quarantine centr…
A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China's stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people.
