Shanghai To Be Under Covid Lock-Down For Nine Days

 

Reuters: China's Shanghai split in two for COVID lockdown as asymptomatic cases surge 

SHANGHAI, March 28 (Reuters) - China's financial hub of Shanghai launched a planned two-stage lockdown of the city of 26 million people on Monday, closing bridges and tunnels, and restricting highway traffic in a scramble to contain surging local COVID-19 cases. 

The snap lockdown, announced by Shanghai's city government on Sunday, will split the city in two roughly along the Huangpu River for nine days to allow for "staggered" testing. 

It is the biggest COVID-related disruption to hit the city so far. The announcement also marks a turnaround for the local government, which last week expressly denied Shanghai would be locked down as it pursued a more piecemeal "slicing and gridding" approach to try to prevent infections from spreading.  

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Shanghai To Be Under Covid Lock-Down For Nine Days 

Shanghai to close communities, suspend transportation in half city for mass testing -- Global Times  

COVID-19: Shanghai to be split in half using Huangpu River for new two-part lockdown -- SKY News  

Shanghai to lock down each half of city for mass Covid-19 testing -- CNN 

China begins locking down most of its largest city, Shanghai, to begin mass testing its population of 26 million -- AP 

Shanghai imposes lockdown in effort to control omicron outbreak -- The Hill