SHANGHAI, April 18 — The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, Covid-negative against Covid-positive people. Shanghai’s 25 million people, most of whom live in apartment blocks, have forged...
SHANGHAI, April 18 — The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, Covid-negative against Covid-positive people.
In one, conflict erupted when a woman who had been taken to centralised quarantine — where she tested negative — accused her neighbour of reporting her to authorities. “In the group chats, they were saying things like, ‘oh are the positive people still here, are the positive people still here?’,” she said, declining to give her name.
Another foreign resident, who only wanted to be identified as Alexy, was suspected by neighbours of being Covid-positive when his test result failed to upload to his health app.
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