A general view shows empty streets during the second stage of a Covid-19 lockdown in the Yangpu district in Shanghai, on April 1, 2022. - AFP
SHANGHAI, April 2 (Bloomberg): Shanghai’s 25 million residents are almost all under some form of lockdown as the financial hub scrambles to tame a relentless surge of the coronavirus’s highly contagious omicron variant.
The eastern half of the mega Chinese city remains under tight movement restrictions despite the end of a four-day sweeping lockdown Friday morning, according to a government statement Saturday (April 2).
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