Robo dogs with megaphones strapped on have been deployed to bark Covid safety advice in Shanghai. China s biggest city is in lockdown again as Omicron cases climb.
Shanghai at the weekend recorded a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, but a member of the city’s pandemic task force said officials were determined to avoid a full lockdown over the damage it would do to the economy
Millions of people in Shanghai were yesterday confined to their homes as the eastern half of China’s financial hub went into lockdown to curb the country’s biggest ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
The move, announced late on Sunday, caused a run on grocery stores by residents who have become exasperated with authorities’ inability to snuff out the outbreak despite nearly three weeks of increasingly disruptive measures.
Authorities are imposing a two-phase lockdown of the city of about 25 million people to carry out mass testing.
The government had sought to avoid the hard lockdowns regularly deployed in other Chinese cities, opting instead for rolling localized
The financial capital has become China's COVID hotspot, with 3,500 new cases detected Sunday; residents complain of city's 'inconsistent' control measures