Why Shanghai is back in lockdown

As Shanghai enters the fourth week of the world’s strictest Covid lockdown, residents are running out of food, medicine and patience – and there’s no end in sight. Meanwhile Beijing has begun mass testing and ordered its nearly 22 million residents to remain in the city. Should China rethink its Covid strategy?

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- Didi Tang, Beijing correspondent, The Times.

- Ian Mote, British banker living in Shanghai.

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