Some residents of Shanghai were allowed out of their homes as the city of 25 million eased a two-week-old shutdown.
Deliverymen wearing protective suits carry bags of food at the gate of a residential community in Shanghai, China, Monday, April 11, 2022. The U.S. has ordered all non-emergency consular staff to leave Shanghai, which is under a tight lockdown to contain a COVID-19 surge. Many residents in the city of 26 million have been confined to their homes for up to three weeks as China maintains its"zero-COVID" strategy of handling outbreaks with strict isolation and mass testing.
Meanwhile, the American government announced all “non-emergency U.S. government employees” would be withdrawn from its Shanghai Consulate. A foreign ministry spokesman defended China's handling of the outbreak and accused Washington of politicizing its evacuation. In Shanghai, more than 200,000 cases but no deaths have been reported in the latest wave of infections.
Another 15 million people in “quarantine areas” that have had infections in the past week still are barred from leaving their homes. The report gave no indication of the status of the remaining 3.4 million people in the official population. The government distributed packages of vegetables and other food for a few days at least twice to some households. Others said they received nothing.
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