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News Articles: Shanghai

Delivery men sort out their parcels outside a community on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Beijing.

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  • Asia

Shanghai eases into gradually reopening from its COVID-19 lockdown

China's largest city and global financial hub plans to restore mass transit and gradually reopen schools

May 31, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A man wearing a face mask stands on a bridge over an expressway in Beijing, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Parts of Beijing on Thursday halted daily mass testing that had been conducted over the past several weeks, but many testing sites remained busy due to requirements for a negative COVID test in the last 48 hours to enter some buildings in China's capital.

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  • Asia

Shanghai is expected to reopen some subways as it eases COVID restrictions

The lockdown of China's largest city has dealt a blow to the economy and frustrated residents.

May 19, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A man wearing a face mask stands on a bridge over an expressway in Beijing, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Parts of Beijing on Thursday halted daily mass testing that had been conducted over the past several weeks, but many testing sites remained busy due to requirements for a negative COVID test in the last 48 hours to enter some buildings in China's capital.

Tagged as: 

  • Asia

Shanghai is expected to reopen some subways as it eases COVID restrictions

The lockdown of China's largest city has dealt a blow to the economy and frustrated residents.

May 19, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Workers in protective overalls conduct mass COVID testing for residents on May 11, 2022, in Beijing.

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  • Asia

Shanghai maintains 'zero-COVID' policy but the U.N. says it is not sustainable

The leader of the World Health Organization says he doesn't think that a 'zero-COVID' strategy is sustainable, given the behavior of the virus.

May 11, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Workers in protective overalls conduct mass COVID testing for residents on May 11, 2022, in Beijing.

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  • Asia

Shanghai maintains 'zero-COVID' policy but the U.N. says it is not sustainable

The leader of the World Health Organization says he doesn't think that a 'zero-COVID' strategy is sustainable, given the behavior of the virus.

May 11, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Workers clean and disinfect the floor at the National Exhibition and Convention Center NECC, the largest makeshift hospital, in Shanghai. Many jobs in these temporary facilities are drawn from the pool of unemployed migrant workers.

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  • Global Health

Migrant workers in China find new jobs — and precarious conditions — in COVID control

China's economic downturn has left thousands of migrant workers unemployed. They're pivoting to work in COVID control — and have strong concerns about how they are being treated.

April 21, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The skyline of Beijing is reflecting in the sunglasses of a woman wearing a face mask as she walks at a public park in Beijing, Thursday, April 14, 2022.

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  • Asia

Anti-virus shutdowns in China spread as infections rise

Shutdowns that have shut down some of China's biggest cities and fueled public irritation are spreading as infections rise, hurting a weak economy and prompting warnings of possible global shockwaves.

April 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Workers unload supplies including boxes of masks in Shanghai on Sunday, April 10, 2022.

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  • Asia

U.S. orders consular staff to leave Shanghai amid COVID surge

The order from Washington covers "non-emergency U.S. government employees and their family members from U.S. Consulate General Shanghai."

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Neighborhoods are separated by barriers as part of lockdown measures in Shanghai to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.

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  • Global Health

Voices from Shanghai: The trials of living through a massive COVID lockdown

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.

April 07, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Residents wearing face masks walk by a masked security watch over a barricaded Galaxy Soho commercial office building locked down for health monitoring following a COVID-19 case detected in the area Tuesday in Beijing. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff.

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  • World

26 million people in Shanghai are locked down due to a surge in COVID cases

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.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A worker in protective gear stands by barriers set up as part of lockdown measures against COVID-19 in Jing'an district, in Shanghai on March 31.

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  • Global Health

Shanghai locks down, but experts ask how else China could combat COVID

Battling its biggest COVID surge in two years, Shanghai has instituted rigorous lockdowns — again — that are frustrating residents.

April 03, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Aowen Cao

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