Shanghai residents chafe under fresh COVID-19 lockdowns

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Residents stuck inside a compound nearly a week after Shanghai's much vaunted reopening following a virus outbreak shouted at hazmat-clad officials on Monday, as fears grew that some city neighbourhoods were being locked down again.

Authorities said they were reopening Shanghai last week, but many residents remain under strict movement restrictionsSHANGHAI - Residents stuck inside a compound nearly a week after Shanghai's much-vaunted reopening following a virus outbreak shouted at hazmat-clad officials on Monday, as fears grew that some city neighbourhoods were being locked down again.

In the downtown Xuhui district on Monday, an AFP reporter witnessed about a dozen people in one fenced-off housing compound shouting angrily at hazmat-clad officials. "I'm very indignant," he told AFP."It's been two months and we can't cope anymore. We're all negative , why lock us in a cage?" More than half a million people remain under movement restrictions in the financial hub, authorities sayShanghai has creaked back to life in recent days, as commuters have begun to return to their offices and residents have gathered in parks and along the city's historic waterfront.Under China's stringent zero-Covid approach, all positive cases are isolated and close contacts -- often including the entire building or community where they live -- are made to quarantine.

 

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