Shanghai Lockdown
China: People scramble to buy essential supply amid Shanghai's divided lockdown
Shanghai, China: Shanghai, a city which has been put under lockdown dividedly, is seeing residents scrambling to buy essential supplies while thousands quarantine in offices, media reports said on Wednesday.
After weeks of isolated compound lockdowns, the city of 25 million has been split into two, reports BBC.
This week, people living in Shanghai's eastern half were told to stay home.
People in western half of the city will be put under lockdown from this Friday.
Shanghai is battling a surge in Omicron cases.
China's zero-Covid strategy has been increasingly challenged by the highly infectious Omicron variant, reports BBC.
The city reported 326 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, along with 5,656 local asymptomatic cases, reports Xinhua.
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