Shanghai lockdown due to COVID-19

[Axtremus]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-covid-shanghai-cases-record-lockdown-omicron-variant/

Shanghai is getting locked down in two phases to contain an Omicron surge.

[Horace]

I wonder how the disease gets in, what with the three week quarantines for all entrants to China.

[Jolly]

They can try. It will work. Until the next time.

[taiwan_girl]

Yeah, the biggest problem mainland China has is that at some point it is going to have to stop the "zero" COVID policy.

At some early point, it may have made sense if we thought it could be eliminated.

But now for sure, it does not apear to be the case.

But, to eliminate this policy may

1. be a loss of face for the government
2. admitting that the Chinese vaccines do not work very well

[Axtremus]

China: Panic buying in divided Shanghai under lockdown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60912846