Residents fully back efforts to ‘break the chain’

Staying home: Empty roads replace the hustle and bustle of city life in Shanghai as the citywide ‘static management’ policy comes into force to curb the Covid-19 outbreak. — Bloomberg

SHANGHAI: Residents in Shanghai woke up to a quiet morning as the city entered its second phase of lockdown, beginning mass testing of 16 million residents living in Puxi, the area west of the Huangpu River.

The normally bustling, popular tourism sites in the area, including the Bund and Nanjing Road shopping street, became silent as the city fights its worst Covid-19 outbreak in two years.