Shanghai Lockdowns Used to ‘Test People’s Stress Tolerance Levels’, Insider Says

Shanghai Lockdowns Used to ‘Test People’s Stress Tolerance Levels’, Insider Says
Workers in protective suits stand on a street during a lockdown in Shanghai on April 16, 2022. Aly Song/Reuters
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Despite having Vice Premier Sun Chunlan overseeing the process of eliminating COVID from Shanghai, the situation has not been going as smoothly as Beijing would have expected.

With a population of 26 million people, Shanghai is now going into its fifth straight week of city-wide lockdown in accordance with Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “Dynamic zero-COVID” policy, an extreme and aggressive form of lockdown aimed to eliminate coronavirus transmission.

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