Tag: Shanghai

Shanghai Registers 1st Fatalities From Current COVID-19 Outbreak After Mounting Reports of Unrecorded Deaths

Authorities in Shanghai, which is grappling its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic, reported its first deaths on April 18. The three deaths were all elderly, suffered from multiple severe diseases, including acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sequelae of cerebral infarction, and hadn’t been vaccinated, said Wu Qianyu, the…


Lockdown Induces Shanghai Port Congestion, Drags Foreign Trade and Global Supply Chain   

A prolonged citywide lockdown caused congestion in the Port of Shanghai and affected the global supply chain due to the megacity’s influential position in foreign trade and transportation. Zhang Jinglun, a U.S. financial expert, told The Epoch Times that the Shanghai lockdown, part of China’s intensifying anti-virus measures, is bound to cause disruptions in production…


China’s Economy in March Shows Weakness as ‘Zero-COVID’ Bites, Suggesting Hard Grind Ahead

China’s economy slowed in March, seeing a contraction in both domestic consumption and factories activities as Beijing’s sweeping COVID-19 lockdowns takes their toll across the country, official data shows. The figures came after financial hub Shanghai has for weeks been gripped by an unprecedented city-wide lockdown, and hundreds of millions subject to stay-at-home orders around…


Shanghai in Lockdown, Residents Suffer Food Shortages and Soaring Prices

Shanghai residents are running short on provisions in the lockdown. Residents told the Chinese Epoch Times that they are facing a food crisis. The citywide lockdown started on April 1, after a partial lockdown began in the east side of the city on March 28. Shanghai residents seek ways to expose the current situation inside…


‘More People Will Be Killed by Lockdown Than by COVID-19’: Shanghai’s Top Pandemic Expert

The Chinese communist regime’s “COVID Zero” policy and strict pandemic control measures have caused numerous tragedies and mass complaints. Shanghai has been under lockdown for more than two weeks and humanitarian disasters have been frequently reported on social media. A video has been circulating online in recent days, in which Shanghai’s top epidemic expert Zhang Wenhong…


Shanghai Residents Clash With Police Over Neighborhood Quarantine Centers Under Construction

Footage that widely circulated on social media shows residents entered a neighborhood clash with police in Shanghai due to local authorities’ decision to acquire some of their community’s apartment buildings as quarantine centers. According to the footage, dwellers in the Zhangjiang Nashi neighborhood compound rallied in protest of the local government’s eviction order that forced…


Shanghai Residents Fear the Growing Costs of Harsh Lockdowns

Shanghai residents are continuing to reel under strict lockdown conditions brought on by the regime’s Zero-COVID policy, with many concerned how it will affect the economy. The lockdown has been ongoing for many of the city’s 26 million residents for nearly three weeks. A city-wide lockdown was announced on April 3. Shi Lei (pseudonym) lives…


Shanghai Residents Fear the Growing Costs of Harsh Lockdown

Shanghai residents are continuing to reel under strict lockdown conditions brought on by the regime’s Zero-COVID policy, with many concerned how it will affect the economy. The lockdown has been ongoing for many of the city’s 26 million residents for nearly three weeks. A city-wide lockdown was announced on April 3. Shi Lei (pseudonym) lives…


Shanghai Resident Films Bodies Being Taken From Aged Care Facility, Exposing ‘Zero Death’ Lie of the Chinese Regime

Many elderly people have died in aged care facilities amid a recent outbreak of COVID-19, known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, in Shanghai. However, the authorities have not reported a single death so far. Video footage provided by a resident showed people in white protective gear taking bagged bodies from a building to…


Shanghai Resident Films Bodies Being Taken From Aged Care Facility Amid Mounting Reports of COVID-19 Deaths

Many elderly people have died in aged care facilities amid a recent outbreak of COVID-19, known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, in Shanghai. However, the authorities have not reported a single death so far. Video footage provided by a resident showed people in white protective gear taking bagged bodies from a building to…