Shanghai blockades Covid-hit buildings, fuelling fresh outcry

A courier in a protective suit makes deliveries to a residential compound in Shanghai on April 23, 2022. - Reuters

SHANGHAI, April 24 (Reuters): Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of Covid-19 have erected mesh barriers outside some residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city's 25 million people to stay home.

Images of white hazmat suit-clad workers sealing entrances of housing blocks and even closing off entire streets with roughly two metre-tall green fencing went viral on social media on Saturday, prompting questions and complaints from residents.