Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai, with 26 million under lockdown, scrambled to secure food on Wednesday, with supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide Covid-19 testing programme.
The government of the city, which is in the grips of its biggest-ever Covid-19 outbreak, said on Wednesday it would not consider lifting restrictions until the latest tests were completed and the results evaluated.
Many have called for asymptomatic cases to be allowed to quarantine at home, and policies that separate Covid-19-positive children from their parents have drawn fire. With official delivery channels either unavailable or severely backlogged, residents have been using whatever method they can — including community WeChat groups — to try for fresh stocks of fruit and vegetables.
Logistics have been a major challenge for the city government, which had been relatively unscathed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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