Foreign residents in Shanghai have described supermarkets “flooded with people” and a sense of growing frustration after authorities in the financial hub abruptly announced a large-scale lockdown to contain a coronavirus outbreak. The city, which is home to more than 10,000 international companies, has seen infections surge from a few hundred to nearly 11,500 since March 1, as a wave of Omicron cases sweeps China, testing the limits of the country’s zero-Covid policy and putting pressure on the…
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