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Trapped in Shanghai

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Published: April 11th, 2022,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

Construction of the city’s largest quarantine center in the Hongqiao National Convention & Exhibition Center: About 40,000 people who tested positive will soon be accommodated here.
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There is no end in sight to the tough Covid measures in Shanghai. On Saturday, authorities indicated that they would partially reopen the first city districts. On one condition: Not a single resident was allowed to be tested Covid for corona in the past 14 days. But for the time being, nothing came of it. The number of cases continues to rise unabated. On Sunday, 24,943 new infections were registered. A week ago, there were fewer than 10,000 a day. Meanwhile, the number of cases with symptoms is also rising. On Sunday, there were over a thousand, three times as many as on Thursday.

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