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Shanghai separates COVID-positive children from parents in virus fight
By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham
Reuters, April 2, 20229:32 AM EDT

Entire Shanghai Placed Under Lockdown
City reported more than 6,300 new Covid infections Friday
Eastern half of city remains under tight restrictions
Bloomberg News. April 1, 2022, 10:43 PM EDT Updated onApril 2, 2022, 6:44 AM EDT
Shanghai’s 25 million residents are almost all under some form of lockdown as the financial hub struggles to contain the coronavirus’s highly contagious omicron variant.
The eastern half of the mega Chinese city remains under tight movement restrictions despite the end of a four-day sweeping lockdown Friday morning, according to a government statement Saturday. That means the entire population of the metropolis is currently under some form of quarantine as the two-part lockdown shifted to the western half of Shanghai on Friday.
Residents in the western part of the city, where about two-thirds of its population live, began their four-day lockdown at 3 a.m. local time on Friday as the program approached an end in the east. During the restrictions, residents are barred from leaving home except for mandatory mass Covid tests…
“At present, the epidemic situation is severe and complex, and the task of prevention and control is extremely arduous,” Wu Qianyu, an official at the Shanghai municipal health commission, said at a media briefing…