NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with two residents of a housing complex in Shanghai about how they have experienced the city's lockdown — which is approaching its sixth week.

Shanghai is under partial lockdown. The city with 25 million people has been split into two — those living in the eastern half were told to stay home early this week.

China is struggling to contain an outbreak of Covid-19 in Shanghai despite a 17-day lockdown that is keeping most of its 25 million residents trapped at home.

A month later, Shanghai slid into lockdown. The city would stay in various stages of lockdown until early 2023. Last spring, after Liu had a baby, she started looking for a space to lease.

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China's extended COVID-19 lockdown of Shanghai has led to logistical disruptions that have almost caused the transport of goods to be "ground to a halt," The Wall Street Journal reported April 21.

A two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hard-line "zero-COVID" strategy whose effects are being felt beyond the country's borders ...

China is struggling to contain an outbreak of Covid-19 in Shanghai despite a 17-day lockdown that is keeping most of its 25 million residents trapped at home.

As omicron spreads in China, one of its largest cities — Shanghai — has been placed on lockdown under the government's "zero COVID" policy.

Residents on one side of the river that divides the Chinese city are the first to be confined at home, while their neighbors on the opposite bank will follow on Friday.