Millions of people in China's financial hub were confined to their homes on Monday as the eastern half of Shanghai went into lockdown to curb the nation's biggest Covid outbreak.
Authorities announced late on Sunday that it would carry out a two-phased lockdown of the city of around 25 million people to carry out mass testing.
The area locked down on Monday was the sprawling eastern district known as Pudong, which includes the main international airport and glittering financial district. Those numbers remain insignificant globally, but are up sharply from less than 100 a day in February.
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