78 Days of Lockdown ‘Like a Nightmare,’ Shanghai Resident Says

A security worker locks a door with a chain in a neighborhood under a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on June 2, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

A Shanghai resident and his neighbors were locked in their compound on March 13, and the local authorities told them that lockdown measures would be for “several days.” Seventy-eight days passed before he was able to leave his compound.

It was “like a nightmare,” he said.