Shanghai Residents Heard Screaming And Crying From Windows While Under COVID Lockdown
Horrifying:
What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its authenticity: People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason. pic.twitter.com/iHGOO8D8Cz
— Patrick Madrid ✌🏼 (@patrickmadrid) April 9, 2022
Shanghai, a city of 26 million people, has been fully locked down since last month as part of China’s “dynamic zero” COVID policy. In addition to the mental and emotional toll this is obviously having on people, millions are reportedly running out of food, too. This has led to protests (an extreme and shocking rarity in China) at food distribution locations, as seen here:
The situation in Shanghai is scary. Reports of millions struggling to feed themselves, elderly unable to access medicine, videos of small riots breaking out circulating on social media. Many households relying on inadequate govt food deliveries. pic.twitter.com/bW1ixaTu7O
— Michael Smith (@MikeSmithAFR) April 8, 2022
Via MSN:
Shanghai reported 25,000 Covid-19 infections on Sunday, another highest daily peak in the worst Covid outbreak in China in two years. In order to stop the spread of the disease, the city has been placed under the strict “dynamic zero” Covid strategy .
Under zero Covid, all 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai underwent mass testing. Anyone infected must be taken from their homes and quarantined. All close contacts of the infected are also taken away and isolated. The rest have been barred from leaving their homes or apartment buildings.
Plans called for four-day closures of districts while residents were tested. That changed to an indefinite citywide shutdown after case numbers soared. Many residents in Shanghai have struggled to arrange for food deliveries to their homes during the lockdown.
[MSN: Shanghai locals scream from windows, protest as city faces food shortage amid Covid-19 spike]
