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Coronavirus outbreak: Voices from China

Coronavirus outbreak: Voices from China
As the number of coronavirus infections and deaths continues to rise, the places and people at the center of the outbreak risk becoming statistics. In this series of articles, Inkstone passes the microphone to those most affected by the epidemic.
Shanghai hospitals overwhelmed as Covid cases spike

Video | Covid wave puts strain on Shanghai hospitals

China society

‘Trust is a joy’: novel idea for coin box helping passers-by a social media hit

Chinese fashion

Shanghai lockdown: fashion designers talk about uncertain future with Covid

China society

Chinese Truman Show: artist questions China’s strict Covid quarantine

The Truman Show, Chinese style: performance artist live-streams his 14-day ‘quarantine life’ to challenge the public to question art and the mainland government’s Covid-19 response.

A performance artist live-streaming his 14-day ‘quarantine life’ on a small platform probokes the public to think about China’s Covid-19 strategy. Photo: SCMP Artwork
Coronavirus China

Omicron claims record 39 lives in one day in Shanghai as new cases slip

A total of 21,058 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, 10 per cent less than a day earlier, according to data released on Sunday, as Vice-Premier Sun called for the timely treatment of patients.

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China society

Shanghai residents pay Africans to send well-wishing videos during lockdown

To boost morale amid the misery of Shanghai’s ongoing coronavirus lockdown, many residents have been buying videos featuring actors sending well wishes to the city’s suffering residents.

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Migrant workers in China

Video | Beijing migrant workers left jobless by Covid rules

China’s harsh Covid restrictions leave thousands of migrant workers in limbo
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China society

Shanghai’s forgotten elderly trapped without food, essential medicine

More than any other group the lack of access to healthy regular food and essential medicines has hit the City of Shanghai’s large elderly population especially hard.

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Leaking roofs latest embarrassment for China’s hastily built isolation centres

Shanghai’s residents are now more afraid of being taken to the notorious fangcang isolation camps than they are of the virus itself.

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China society

Shanghai residents race to buy fridges, freezers storage to survive lockdown

Demand for supersized fridges has surged in Shanghai as many people try to hoard as much food as possible during the city’s ongoing lockdown.

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Shanghai fridge sales through the roof, with people buying bigger or more fridges to support the stockpiling of food during lockdowns. Photo: Handout
China society

China’s community officials feel strain of Shanghai Covid lockdown

A resignation letter by a community official and a tearful phone recording of a call between another with a resident have shed light on the mounting problems and workload China’s community officials are struggling with as they battle the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak.

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Viral resignation letter from a residential community officer highlights how they face a lot of pressure as they often do not receive much information from higher level authorities and don’t know how to solve the many problems residents are bringing to them. Photo: Handout
Coronavirus China

‘You are positive if I say so’: Shanghai residents fear inaccurate Covid tests

The Chinese city is living in fear of incorrect coronavirus test results as stories emerge of false-positive results seeing people dragged away to forced isolation as the city ends its second week of a full lockdown.

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China society

Locked down Shanghai residents risk punishment, sneaking out to barter for food

Shanghai residents go back to a cashless economy; trading for food and essentials including everything from garlic to sanitary napkins as the city of 25 million remains locked down.

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China society

Even billionaires can’t find milk and bread during lockdowns it seems

The problems faced by China’s residents getting daily necessities under lockdowns do not discriminate, it seems, after it was revealed billionaire Kathy Xu Xin, known as ‘China’s venture capital queen’ had been asking neighbours for help getting bread and milk.

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Under Shanghai’s lockdown, even billionaires like China’s ‘venture capital queen’ Xu Xin are reportedly resorting to neighbourhood trading groups to source basic staples like bread. Photo: Handout
China society

Woman has double eyelid surgery sutures removed at gate during lockdown

A woman who underwent double eyelid cosmetic surgery and was waiting to have the sutures taken out was stuck during a sudden lockdown in China had to get a doctor to remove them at her residential complex gate.

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A woman has sutures from a double eyelid procedure removed at her residential complex gate by a doctor during Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdown. Photo: SCMP Artwork
China society

‘I miss you’: two small boys show support for families on pandemic front line

The stories of two small boys whose families are away battling China’s coronavirus pandemic have touched many with their heartfelt messages of support and longing to see their loved ones.

Coronavirus China

‘Rigid, crude’ lockdowns only choice for China’s poor regions under zero-Covid

For many local authorities in places such as China’s northeastern rust belt, the economic costs of stringent lockdowns may be nothing compared with the political implications of a runaway outbreak.

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China society

Woman on blind date trapped after man’s home placed under Covid-19 lockdown

A woman who has been trapped at a blind date’s house for more than a week after a sudden lockdown is an online celebrity after her videos about the experience went viral in China.

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Video diary of a woman locked down at a blind date’s home in China goes viral. Photo: Douyin
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Trip.com to focus on domestic bookings as Covid-19 halts outbound tours

With current domestic bookings running at 70 to 80 per cent of pre-Covid levels, Trip.com sees a bumpy road to recovery given the Omicron variant and mini-outbreaks that trigger local travel bans.

Tourism

They’re flocking to Sanya for their Bali fix, but will they return?

The resort city of Sanya, on China’s Hainan island, has proven a valued substitute for the country’s foreign residents missing sun, sea and sand, but not all plan to come back post-pandemic.

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Coronavirus pandemic

Survivors of Covid-19 - SCMP series

A series exploring the different experiences of recovered coronavirus patients

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Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Video | Students stranded by Covid-19 create dilemma for China

Repatriation of over 1.4 million Chinese students stranded abroad by Covid-19 creates dilemma
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Video | Critic of China’s coronavirus response under investigation

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Video | Coronavirus: A Hongkonger’s life under Wuhan lockdown

Coronavirus China

Video | China: 0 new local cases as medics return home

China sees zero domestic Covid-19 cases for third day, but imported coronavirus infections surge
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Video | Trump angers China with ‘Chinese virus’ tweet

Trump angers Beijing with ‘Chinese virus’ tweet
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Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Video | How China is containing the coronavirus

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Video | Pandemic deepens divide between mainlanders and Hongkongers

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