Half of Shanghai put under lockdown

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 29, 2022 12:14 am

SHANGHAI: Millions of people in Shanghai were confined to their homes on Monday as the eastern half of China's financial hub went under lockdown to curb the East Asian country's biggest ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

The move, announced on Sunday night, caused a run to grocery stores by residents who have become increasingly exasperated with the authorities' inability to snuff out the outbreak despite nearly three weeks of increasingly disruptive measures.

SAILING IN SHANGHAI A ship sails on the Huangpu River as Shanghai’s towering buildings rise behind it in the city’s Pudong district, which is under lockdown on Monday, March 28, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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